How to stay safe from COVID, flu while traveling for the holidays
With COVID, flu and other viruses still circulating at high rates, experts reveal how to best protect yourself from infection while you're traveling for the holidays. Americans are taking to the roads and to the skies as they travel to see family and friends for the holidays. While the holidays are being celebrated semi-normally for the first time in more than two years, the threat of multiple respiratory viruses lingers. Although cases of the flu and RSV are declining in some areas, they are still higher at this point in the year than in seasons past, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MORE: US life expectancy falls to lowest levels since 1996 due to COVID, drug overdoses: CDC Meanwhile, weekly COVID-19 cases have increased over the last four weeks from 307,201 to 455,466, CDC data shows. While heading to your destination, experts recommend masking and practicing good hand hygiene to avoid getting infected -- or passing infection to others -- while Travel...