Ahead Of Thanksgiving, University Of Maryland Experts Offer Advice For Safe Holiday Travel

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Are you taking a plane, bid oregon automobile to get location for Thanksgiving?

University of Maryland Medical System experts accidental it’s inactive important to instrumentality precautions against COVID-19, specified arsenic wearing a disguise successful nationalist indoor spaces and getting tested earlier travel.

“The large quality betwixt this twelvemonth and past year’s vacation play is that we present person harmless and effectual vaccines,” says Dr. Greg Schrank, subordinate infirmary epidemiologist astatine the University of Maryland Medical Center and an adjunct prof astatine the University of Maryland School of Medicine. “We should observe the holidays unneurotic and instrumentality steps to marque the hazard of COVID transmission arsenic debased arsenic possible.”

Dr. Andrea Berry, a pediatrician astatine the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital and subordinate prof astatine the the University of Maryland School of Medicine, says parents who privation to support their kids should see vaccination. Pfizer’s pediatric vaccine is approved for children ages 5 to 11.

The experts suggest wearing a disguise successful a plane, autobus oregon train, adjacent for travelers who are vaccinated, and accidental N95 and KN95 respirators are much effectual than cloth masks.

Passengers should bring manus sanitizer with them and see getting tested wrong 48 hours of their departure, the experts say.

During get-togethers, “the much radical that are afloat vaccinated, the safer it volition be,” the experts say. If the upwind is nice, see eating outside. But if it’s chilly, opening a model provides amended ventilation, they say.

Anyone feeling sick oregon experiencing COVID-19 symptoms should cancel plans and get tested.

“Unvaccinated radical should see getting tested successful the archetypal fewer days aft their travel oregon ample gathering, particularly if it was to an country of important oregon precocious COVID-19 transmission,” the experts say.

Dr. David Marcozzi, UMMS’ COVID-19 incidental commandant and main objective serviceman of the University of Maryland Medical Center, notes the holidays are important for everyone’s well-being.

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“Most importantly, we each request to reconnect and bask being unneurotic with household and friends,” Dr. Marcozzi said. “It’s an important clip and radical should beryllium definite to instrumentality attraction of their intelligence health.”