Bringing home treats and fun – not Covid-19

Health officials offer tips, alternatives for a safe and healthy Halloween

SPOKANE COUNTY – Halloween is one of the more popular holiday’s of the year, partly because of all the variety of public events — from parties to haunted houses and the traditional trick-or-treat excursions about the neighborhood.

But in the year of coronavirus, this high-level of social interaction outside the household could also be recipe for spreading Covid-19, the lower respiratory disease associated with coronavirus that, according to the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 Dashboard, has resulted in over 8.18 million infections and almost 220,000 deaths in the United States alone.

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