Posted on 10/15/2021 7:09:57 PM PDT by lightman
Get your holiday themed masks and porch heaters ready.
Masks and outdoor gatherings will still be the best way to make holiday gatherings safe this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in new guidance.
The CDC's number one advice is for all those who are eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine before people get together and travel at the holidays. For kids ages 11 and under who aren't yet eligible to get the vaccine, the CDC recommends all those who will be around them over the holidays be vaccinated to protect them.
Unvaccinated adults in the U.S. face an 11 times higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated individuals and a six times higher risk of testing positive for COVID-19 according to new data published Friday from the CDC.
For indoor gatherings, people should still wear masks, especially the unvaccinated.
Outdoors is still considered safer than indoors for gatherings. Families may want to take additional precautions before they get together, and get tested. The CDC also suggests people avoid crowded spaces before traveling.
The guidance this year is not holiday-specific like it was last year. The guidance published Friday comes after some confusion earlier in the month when the CDC published an update to its holiday pages on its website. The CDC said at the time that it was just a technical update to the page. Vaccination Clinic Administers Booster Shots In California Human behavior will determine when the COVID-19 pandemic ends, CDC director says
After a recent downturn in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the past month, some public health experts have warned that the U.S. could see another spike in cases this winter, particularly around the holidays.
"I think we're making some important progress in terms of increasing vaccinations, but the fact of the matter is there are still dangerous gaps in immunity throughout the country, and as long as that's the case, there are still pathways for the virus to spread," said Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
"I'd like to think that the worst is behind us, just given how much we've already endured in terms of high numbers of cases but also increasing progress in increasing vaccination. So I don't think that a rise in cases in the winter will be as bad as last year's winter surge, but there's nothing built into the decline that means that the momentum will be sustained. What we will see is really up to us."
By masking up and getting vaccinated, families have much better options than last year when the CDC had steered people away from travel and gathering in person in the era before vaccines.
"By working together, we can enjoy safer holidays, travel, and protect our own health as well as the health of our family and friends," the CDC said.
Will not comply. Send the FBI!
I CHOSE to get vaccinated....my CHOICE.
If the vaccination is even half of what it is claimed to be I really don’t give a rat’s rump whether anyone else is vaccinated or unvaccinated, masked or unmasked, coughing or calm, close or distant!
I am pro VOLUNTARY vax.
I am barely tolerant VOLUNTARY mask.
I am anti MANDATORY vax.
I am vehemently anti MANDATORY mask.
I have ZERO need to “feel safe” on the basis that everyone in an entertainment venue, a health care facility, or any other place has dutifully shown their papers.
America will remain “the land of the free” ONLY if we demonstrate that we are “the home of the brave”!
can you see my middle finger?
Brandon the CDC and the horse it rode in on.
Appropriate photo.
Dave to CDC. Forget that crap. We are going to live our lives the way we see fit. End Trans.
Commie Dictator Central (CDC)
+101
Sociopaths love to lie with statistics—fun for the whole family this Halloween!
“If vaccines ‘work’ why do we need masks?”
Covid vaccines have about a 6% failure rate overall, mainly in immune-deficient people such as the elderly.
It is reasonable for such people to use early shopping hours and masks for the modest short-term protection masks can provide.
“Every penny helps.”
a British grocery store slogan
No!
Aye, for SUCH people.
THEIR choice.
Don’t force it on everyone else!
Perfect!
F**k the face rags - the fake “vaccines” - and the mandates!!!!!
Johnny Cash always comes through.
My idiot far left liberal Biden voting relatives will wear masks at the Xmas Dinner table - great excuse not to see any of them again this year.
Fixed it.
If this holiday season goes as predicted then what they say doesn’t matter as the shelves will be empty and riots will start. As we all know rioting is the only sure form of COVID immunity right next to being an illegal alien.
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