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What would you do if someone shows up sick to your holiday party? Take our poll

People are traveling and gathering again like they did in pre-COVID times.

But with the country in the midst of a tripledemic this year — with COVID, flu and RSV going around — some of you might be thinking about masks, testing and social distancing again.

Should you get tested before gathering with family? Wear a mask on a plane? And should you go to your family’s holiday party, even if you have a cough or a sore throat?

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Take the surveys below to let us know how you plan to navigate the holidays this year. This isn’t scientific — we just want to see what you think.

This story was originally published December 21, 2022 at 2:38 PM.

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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