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Rossen Reports: Fall survival guide ranks popular activities

Rossen Reports: Fall survival guide ranks popular activities
Hi there were taking you through all of your favorite fall activities. We have doctors ranking the risk, low risk, medium risk or high risk. We hit five big ones yesterday. Did you miss it? I won't blame you. No worries. We're all friends here. Quick recap. Apple and pumpkin picking Experts say it's low risk. You can socially distance hayrides. Medium risk. You're usually sitting with strangers, not great Halloween parties indoors. That's high risk outdoors. 10 people or less medium risk. So it's better going to parades. Experts say It's high risk. Too many people packed into a small space and backyard bonfire. So fun. If you can keep space between friends, that's low risk. Invite him over. Okay, you're all caught up now. What about trick or treating haunted houses and sitting down for the old Thanksgiving meal? Here we go, helping us break down what we should and shouldn't do. Dr. Amos Adult Gia from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security And this is the big one. Trick or treating. Your kids want to do it. We know. Hey there. Good to see you. Watch out for that guy, no matter what, but is it some big super spreader event, your child going door to door all over the neighborhood asking for candy. They're not wearing a mask. Who knows if the homeowner is wearing a mask on? Does it change anything if all the kids are wearing masks and if the homeowners were wearing masks to him, Candy trick or treating is a medium risk activity, but it is something that can be made safe if you have people wearing costumes that include face coverings. If your trick or treating within a group of people that you've already mixed with and you try to keep distance of 6 ft from other groups that are trick or treating, you can minimize the risk to a pretty substantial degree. You know, we had to come here, check out an old fashioned haunted house. Come on in here for a second because it does beg the question. Look, I hate haunted houses. Normally, I get easily scared. Not by this, but when they jumped out on the screaming, you and they get in your face and you have strangers who are screaming around you, too, and look how tight it is in here. You're surrounded by these walls all around. What is the risk of a haunted house? Ah, haunted house. I would rate as something that's in the higher risk category because it is indoors. We have people that are going to be screaming and yelling within them, which can increase the amount of droplets that come out of a person's mouth. It's going to be hard to construct haunted house with separations between the attractions and the scary creatures that air their. You know what I love so much about fall. It's coming to a downtown area like this and walking with your friends. So here's my question. If if I'm wearing a mask and my friends were wearing a mask, even if they're not in my bubble and there, you know, kind of next to me there, you know that far apart, like that couple right there, like this couple over here. Is that safe? What's the risk? They're going for a walk is a low risk activity. It is, by definition, going to be outdoors or transmission is less. You're often walking with someone that you already mixed with, and if you are going to be in places where you're gonna be within 6 ft of another individual. You can use a face covering, which make this a relatively low risk activity. What about the playground? I mean, the weather is getting colder now to say a parents. This may be the last chance to get your kids out of the house. But is this safe? They're all touching the same surfaces with other kids you don't even know. A playground is probably medium risk. It is outdoors, so that decreases. Transmission. People are kind of running around. They're not sitting in one place, and fleeting contact isn't usually a major risk for transmission. Looking ahead, you know Thanksgiving US coming up. So what about that big Thanksgiving meal with all your out of town relatives? Thanksgiving meal is probably medium risk. It's probably equivalent to indoor dining or maybe more so because people Thanksgiving meal are often yelling and shouting at each other, you can try and make it a social distance is possible. You're gonna have people, obviously, by definition, not having face coverings on because they're eating. You can limit the circle of the people that you invite to people you've already mixed with and and try to if you're in an area where you can have windows open and increased ventilation make it a little bit safer. If you missed any of that. We have the fullest on my website right now. Share it with family and friends unless you don't want it to come over for Thanksgiving. Show the other ones you care. Send it to them. It's up right now at Rawson reports dot com Back to you.
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Rossen Reports: Fall survival guide ranks popular activities
Fall's here: You want to get the kids out of the house before winter hits, but you also want to keep everyone safe. So how do you do it? What’s safe and what isn’t?We're taking you through all your favorite fall activities. We have doctors ranking the risk: low risk, medium risk or high risk. We hit five big ones Thursday. Helping us break down what we should and shouldn’t do is Dr. Amesh Adalja from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.Trick-or-treating: medium riskHaunted houses: high risk Walking: low risk Playgrounds: medium risk Thanksgiving meal: medium risk

Fall's here: You want to get the kids out of the house before winter hits, but you also want to keep everyone safe. So how do you do it? What’s safe and what isn’t?

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We're taking you through all your favorite fall activities. We have doctors ranking the risk: low risk, medium risk or high risk. We hit five big ones Thursday.

Helping us break down what we should and shouldn’t do is Dr. Amesh Adalja from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

Trick-or-treating: medium risk

Haunted houses: high risk

Walking: low risk

Playgrounds: medium risk

Thanksgiving meal: medium risk