Your guide to avoiding Covid-19 at church and other religious services - CNN

Just like a financial budget helps you figure out what your spending limits are, a "coronavirus budget" can help you figure out where your boundaries are in terms of potentially risky activities -- including religious services, she said.

"When you're vaccinated, your budget now expands," said Wen, an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.

For example, if it's really important for you to return to in-person church services, don't also dine indoors in restaurants every night."

Some churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship have been offering virtual or outdoor services.

If you do attend in-person services inside, because unvaccinated people are still at higher risk, both vaccinated and unvaccinated people still need "to follow the public health measures recommended (by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)," said Dr.

That includes following the guidance of your local public health department or government.

Whether children should attend Sunday school depends on the setting, Wen said.

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