Doctor gives tips to stay safe while celebrating another COVID Christmas

by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.

Posted: Dec 22, 2021 / 09:22 PM EST / Updated: Dec 22, 2021 / 09:23 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The twelvemonth 2021 volition beryllium different COVID-19 Christmas acknowledgment to omicron’s accomplishment and its accelerated spread. 

Health authorities accidental information measures are needed present much than ever arsenic the mutation takes implicit the country. But, celebrations don’t person to mean isolation if the due precautions are taken.

“As we’ve been saying each along, get vaccinated … get yourself protected,” said Dr. Christopher Doehring, vice president of aesculapian affairs astatine Franciscan Health. “If you are vaccinated and are owed for a booster, get boosted. Those things volition not lone support you but volition assistance support your susceptible household members.”

Doehring besides recommends staying location if feeling ill, gathering unneurotic successful a larger abstraction and minimizing adjacent interaction including hugging. Instead, greet guests with fist and elbow bumps.

These suggestions, helium says, are based connected the surge successful cases aft Thanksgiving, of which the state is inactive experiencing the aftermath.

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