Stepping up your hand hygiene and avoiding exposure to people who are sick may be just as, if not more, effective than wearing a mask.
, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the disruption of the pandemic has created a shift in the seasonal patterns of these viruses. “What is a little different this year is that the timing of all these viruses is overlapping with early waves of RSV and influenza,” Sick-Samuels tells Yahoo Life. “In prior years, we would typically see them more in succession. So that impact was more spread out.
All this is happening just as people are getting ready to spend more time indoors, whether at busy shopping malls and large holiday parties or in crowded airports. Some people wonder if it’s time to revisit those pandemic protections, including masking, which have been relaxed across the country.
However, Doron says not all respiratory viruses are transmitted in the same way. “A well-fitting, high-quality mask appears to protect against COVID, but it may be less protective against viruses that are more reliant on the contact mode of transmission.”spread by touching a surface that has the virus on it
In general, healthy lifestyle habits can also help. “There's a lot of basic stuff that we probably haven't paid enough attention to throughout the pandemic that still applies here,” Doron says. “Your underlying health really matters a lot. And that's eating well and exercising and sleeping well and doing things that keep your stress level down. All of those things are just huge risk factors for severe disease.
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