While reports of COVID parties have been called into question, what isn’t disputed is that people who test positive for COVID-19 or who have symptoms of the virus are going to parties anyway.
recently said it’s investigating. “Small, enclosed places with a lot of people in it are risky — and that’s the standard description of a party,” Cennimo says. “I would not go to a party.”
That should especially be the case for people who test positive for the virus or who have symptoms of the virus, Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life. “If you’re positive — even if you don’t have symptoms — you can transmit the virus,” he says. “You’re contagious and can give this virus to other people.
It’s important, too, to remember that the chain of transmission doesn’t stop at a party. “Whenever someone is infectious and goes anywhere without a mask or is not practicing social distancing, not only can they infect people they may perceive as less vulnerable, but those people come into contact with other individuals who will infect other people,” Dr. Thomas Russo, professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo, tells Yahoo Life. “It becomes a ripple effect.
Even people who have mild symptoms can have lingering aftereffects of the virus, making it not so mild after all, Dr. Richard Watkins, an infectious disease physician and professor of internal medicine at the Northeast Ohio Medical University, tells Yahoo Life. “We don’t know the long-term damage that might result,” he says. “People should be focusing on doing everything they can to not get infected.
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