Advice: 6 tips to avoid getting your family sick during holiday travel
Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UC Health in Colorado, said this time of year often brings norovirus outbreaks as well.
people 5 and older get an updated booster if it’s been at least two months since their last vaccine dose.“If people have not had a flu vaccine, now is the time to get one,” said Kris Bryant, a pediatric infectious-disease specialist at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases.
Bryant acknowledged that masking is a choice now more than a mandate; it’s a choice she made when visiting her newborn grandchild after she’d been working and attending a meeting. But good hand-hygiene remains important, especially as multiple viruses circulate, experts said. As a reminder, the washing should last “at least 20 seconds,” Tuan said.
“It is a huge way to transmit all sorts of things and it’s really gross if you really thought about all the stuff that touches seats and handles and doorknobs,” she said.Virk recommends testing for coronavirus three days before traveling and on the day of travel as a precaution. The Food and Drug Administration
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