Dr. Fauci just said when it's not about accepting your mask

Yes, you can catch Covid even in your own home.


While the majority of the country masked whenever they are in a public place, many consider the comfort of their home a safe refuge with respect toCOVID-19 [Feminine. However, according to health experts, small household gatherings become more and more responsible for the spread of the virus. And, with the holidays that are approaching quickly, unless preventive measures are not made of worse.

During an interview withCBS this morning,Dr. Anthony FauciThe first expert on the nation's infectious disease revealed that to stay safe, you have to wear your mask each time you are around other people, even at home. Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.

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"Yes, it's true," he replied when he asked if it was necessary to hide at your house during a small gathering. "Now, obviously, it's a bit difficult to eat and drink at a dinner with a mask on you can not do that. But to the extent that you can keep this mask on, I mean, nothing will be perfect in This, but if you are inside and you stick with people, even if it's a relatively small group, as far as possible, keep the mask, "he said." Even if you are inside. "

The only situation in which it would be prudent to drop your guard, it is if everyone is tested before the event. He explains that if everyone in the negative test group, "then the risk is fine and that you perform a risk assessment".

However, even if everyone's negative tests, there is always a risk involved. "We are always talking about things and nothing is safe," he explains. But when you make a ratio of risk benefits and you say, "Now, wait a minute. I just tested. My husband or my wife has just tested. Our children enter. They were just tested. Of course, it's not a hundred percent that they could have been infected from the moment they were tested at the time they arrived there. But when you get this degree of risk minimization, you really use common sense and tell you: "You know, I'm ready to take this very small risk, so I do not have to walk around the house with A mask.

He explains that the idea of ​​carrying a mask inside is really limited to "when you enter into a setting where you really do not know what the status of people is" however, "when families go an additional effort of Quarantine or update, so I do not think you really have to say every moment that you are in the house you have to have a mask. "

He explains that everything comes down to the use of "common sense" to assess the relative risk ", because the relative risk will withdraw if everyone has been tested or that people have been quarantined. It is therefore a good sense of this recital. "

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