Author name: People's CDC

There are many reasons we seek in-person connections, including family and life events, holiday parties, celebrations, social gatherings, work or volunteer group meetings, political organizing, and protests. Masking and other precautions are crucial to practicing community care by reducing the risk of COVID, influenza, RSV, and other aerosol-transmitted infectious diseases. These multilayered precautions are needed year-round, and we wanted to get this brief update to you in advance of the late fall and winter holidays.