More transmissible Omicron subvariants are more transmissible no matter where you are exposed. But avoiding COVID outside is a lot like avoiding it inside
Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images Ahead of a large music festival in Ottawa, Ontario, this past weekend, the city’s public-health agency, faced with a wave of new COVID cases, advised wearing a face mask at crowded outdoor gatherings. Such advisories have not been common, but that doesn’t mean it was bad advice.
Simply put, the risk of catching COVID is always lower outside — and usually significantly lower — since outdoor spaces naturally provide far more ventilation and typically allow more room to space out from other people, both of which make it harder for the virus to successfully travel from one person to another. But outdoor activity has never been zero risk when it comes to avoiding COVID, and there are, of course, variables that increase that risk.
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