This hopeful respite comes after months and months of discouraging additions to the US CDC's Level 4 category, in which destinations are considered 'very high' risk for Covid-19.
, it's currently at Level 2.
"You should interpret Level 4 to mean this is a place with a lot of community transmission of Covid-19. So if you go, there is a higher chance that you could contract the coronavirus," said Wen, who is an emergency physician and professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.Some people will decide the risk is too high for them, Wen said.
"Are you planning to visit a lot of attractions and go to indoor bars? That's very different from you're going somewhere where you're planning to lie on the beach all day and not interact with anyone else. That's very different. Those are very different levels of risk."
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