How to Stay Safe for Your Next Trip As COVID Rates Increase

Despite inflation, rising gas prices, and COVID rates increasing again. That is not stopping Americans from traveling. Whether on land, air, or sea, many travelers wonder how to be prepared while the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of COVID continue to rise.

According to the CDC, millions of Americans are now “six or seven months past their first booster and could be more vulnerable to BA.4 and BA.5, the newest lineages of Omicron.”

We spoke with Nurse Practitioner and Global Medical Science Liaison for BD, Joseph Mann, to help clear any traveling misconceptions while Americans are still traveling. Mann believes that the biggest misconception is the idea that “COVID is behind us.”

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