Christmas As Usual? Families Stick To Holiday Plans, Despite Omicron

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The World Health Organization recommends canceling oregon postponing vacation plans owed to the caller surge successful the COVID-19 Omicron variant, but that doesn’t look to beryllium stopping section families from celebrating with their loved ones.

Judy Ho, Ph.D, a objective and forensic neuropsychiatrist astatine Pepperdine University says COVID fatigue, on with assurance successful the vaccine, are “driving radical to say, ‘No, I’m going to person a antithetic benignant of vacation this year.'” Dr. Ho tells CBS13 that past year, astir radical were considering the worst-case script erstwhile it came to gathering with household and friends. This year, she says, “They’re much reasoning about, well, what’s apt to happen?”

While galore radical consciousness much assured this year, not everyone is comfy with Christmas arsenic usual. Dr. Ho says the champion mode to negociate COVID precautions with household is to “come from a spot of knowing and not trying to walk judgement.” She says alternatively of getting defensive, effort to found your comfortableness levels and fto your household determine what to bash next.

Meanwhile, aesculapian experts are urging radical to stay vigilant this vacation season. Michael Vollmer, MD, is an infectious illness specializer and epidemiologist with Kaiser Permanente. He says that adjacent if each subordinate of the household has received their vaccinations and booster shots, the Omicron variant is inactive a menace due to the fact that of its transmissibility.

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While helium understands COVID fatigue, Dr. Vollmer says to support successful mind, “It volition extremity eventually, but determination volition beryllium acold little symptom and suffering if astatine these moments erstwhile get these surges, radical tin conscionable beryllium precautious.”