Order in food or send a gift for Mother's Day, but do your mom a favor and don't expose her unnecessarily to the risk of getting Covid-19, writes Kent Sepkowitz for CNNOpinion
Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
This Sunday, the Covid-19 pandemic, which already has flattened several holiday celebrations -- Mardi Gras, St Patrick's, Passover, Easter, Ramadan -- will run over another. And not just any holiday, but the one that for many, including me, is the most important of them all: Mother's Day. Even for ardent social distancing enthusiasts, the urge to gather, to cut a few corners, bend the rules and not the curve, to try to outsmart the current rules of engagement, will be intense. I mean, if the weather is nice, we could sit outdoors six feet apart and wave, right? And the presents, we could put them in a room for three days and... But let's be smart and safe about this. To help sort through what's ahead, here are a few tips to help you plan.
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