Another Covid Wave Could be Coming. Here’s How to Make Your Holiday Plans.

As our third pandemic winter approaches, you can mitigate risk without missing out.

As we enter our third pandemic holiday season, some doctors are fearing a seasonal surge in Covid. In Europe — which many experts consider a bellwether for Covid cases in the U.S. — cases are starting to mount, prompting the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization to warn that a new wave of infections could be starting.

“This is the holiday that everyone’s going to come back together again,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. With a bit of advanced planning, he said, family gatherings can be safe this year, and resemble something like pre-pandemic times. “We have the tools for a normal life,” he said. “We just have to use them.”

Here’s what to keep in mind as you map out your family’s plans for the holidays.

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