Experts consider Christmas shopping a COVID-19 superspreader event
and last updated 2020-12-24 20:31:29-05
If you did any Christmas shopping in the past week or so, you may have put yourself in the middle of a COVID-19 superspreader event.
Experts say people not following health rules to the letter makes for big gaps in safety, which nobody wants to think about this time of year.
"Christmas shopping itself has been a superspreader event if you take in summary all the people that are out because of that Christmas shopping and their potential exposures. Then you've increased the risk of the community for an increased number of cases," explained McLennan County Health Authority Dr. Farley Verner.