December 16, 2020

Coronavirus And Public Holidays: What The Data Say-Nature

As worldwide coronavirus cases continue to surge, countries are grappling with how to manage big public holidays such as Christmas and Lunar New Year, which researchers are warning could become superspreader events. “We’re already at a high level of community spread, and we’re about to see a lot of people travelling and gathering indoors,” says Julia Marcus, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. “It’s hard to see any way that this is going to go well.” Nature examines what scientists have already learnt about the spread of COVID-19 during holidays. Nature, 12/16/2020