Halloween Guidelines

How should parents cope with the Halloween guidelines for Covid-19 this year?

Scary, this much is clear: pandemic halloween will be very different from halloweens in the past.

News 12's joeli poole has the spooky details.

Traditional ways of celebrating halloween are considerably more frightful than usual this year, because now they bring the risk of spreading the coronavirus.

Joeli poole "accordingly, the cdc has issued new guidelines on how to celebrate halloween safely this year.

No big surprise: classic door-to-door trick- or-treating and crowded costume parties are not recommended.

Low risk activities such as pumpkin carving with family members or virtual costume contests are okay."

An infectious disease doctor says parents should not ignore health experts recommendations -just because children are less susceptible to the coronavirus.

Anderson "the problem is, it's not zero.

They are less susceptible but they still can get sick.

You would hate to be one of those rare severely ill young children.the other issue is even if they get infected and don't get sick they can introduce back into their households."

Health experts want to remind halloween enthusiasts that a costume mask does not replace a protective face covering.

Angwin "the halloween masks are made out of a different material and sometimes that can be a plastic material.

That is not going to keep in the respiratory droplets like a cloth mask would.

Also, do not wear a costume mask on top of a cloth one.

That makes it very difficult to breathe."

Officials encourage people to be creative and make the cloth mask look like a part of their costume.

Although the way in which we celebrate may be different this pandemic halloween, one thing is certain-