should I get tested before Christmas?

No more than 6 at the table, apply barrier gestures, okay. To ensure health security, should you get tested before Christmas?

There are those who strongly advise against going to see grandparents, those who suggest celebrating Christmas in June like Axel Kahn. At Christmas, barrier gestures must not be relaxed. However, if you are pragmatic, how do you ensure that you are as protected from the virus as possible?

First of all, you should avoid being more than 6 at the table as much as possible. Because "eating and drinking together is necessarily removing masks, throwing droplets at the table, sharing your postilions and your aerosol …" as the account says The DOC on Twitter. So remember to ventilate the room as much as possible. It is also ideal to keep the mask outside of the meal in the presence of fragile people, such as those over 65. Remi Salomon, who had been controversial by saying that you shouldn't have dinner with grandparents, stresses the importance of this one.

Even if we have already been infected, barrier gestures are essential. Even if we got tested?

No tests as an immunity totem

Professor Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious diseases department at Tenon hospital in Paris, declared on December 7 on franceinfo that ideally you should get tested 48 hours before going with your family. It does, however, make the effectiveness of this measure conditional: a bit of self-containment now: "I think that it is part of the protection tools to not only protect the greatest number, but especially to protect the beginning of 2021. There is another element perhaps to add to this swab to be done 48 hours before going in family, it is to avoid what I call the "storage of social bond", that is to say the people who will have parties just before, on the pretext that they will be restrained the evening of Christmas or the evening of the 31st. So a little self-containment in the week leading up to Christmas, I think that should serve to protect the greatest number. "

Indeed, as Olivier Véran says, "don't use the test as some sort of immunity totem." It also warns against the "risk that the test will be negative when you are not yet sufficiently contagious to be able to transmit the virus around you". In addition, warns Olivier Veran, "having a test that is negative when you are asymptomatic does not mean that you are not carrying the virus".

Ultimately, get tested, yes if you have symptoms or doubts, and if you have to go to EHPAD. The best solution is to limit contacts as much as possible now; ventilate the room well on Christmas Day and limit physical contact

Mathilde Wattecamps

Missions: Graduated in political science, Mathilde is an expert in subjects related to women's rights and health. Addicted to Instagram and Twitter, never stingy with a good meme.

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