Say there are two healthy families of four. If the children are not vaccinated in one of the households, but all the adults are, you can consider inviting people in, as long as the windows are open and everyone is wearing masks, said dr. health research laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. If the children are not vaccinated in any household and only one set of adults is vaccinated, he and other experts would say that an outdoor meeting with masks and distance is the safest.
You may also be wondering if your non-vaccinated children can finally get a hug and kiss from their healthy, vaccinated grandmother. On this question, the experts’ opinions differ. But in general, if everyone is healthy and you comfortably take some risk, a hug or kiss is probably good.
“The likelihood that my child will transmit a virus that will eventually cause serious illness in my vaccinated parents is very, very low,” said Dr. Barocas said.
Similarly, he added, it is unlikely that a vaccinated adult would transmit the virus to a child. That said, the experts have advised to do what feels good for you and your family.
“I think everyone who visits the visit should understand that we balance risks and benefits,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital in Langone, said. But, he added, when the grandparents are vaccinated, “I cuddle and kiss.”
Jennifer Rogers, 46, a lawyer in Philadelphia, said her husband and two children, ages 8 and 11, would celebrate Easter by visiting her parents’ home for a few hours. They plan to hunt an outdoor Easter egg and smash it away to a coronavirus-shaped piñata. But the children, with me. Rogers’ sister and her sister’s son will all be wearing masks. Rogers and her husband have both been vaccinated, but they plan to wear masks as well, as their family recently returned from a vacation in Florida.
“It still feels like a loss, as if it is not the same as it was,” she said. Rogers said, whose family usually spends the night at her parents’ house.