Is it safe to stay at a hotel during the coronavirus pandemic?

[Yoni Heisler]

• Staying at a hotel during the coronavirus pandemic can be safe, but only if you do your homework before making a reservation.
• It's important to ask the hotel if they have a capacity limit on guests. It's also important to ask how often rooms are turned over to new guests.
• Coronavirus infections are on the rise across the country and experts fear we'll see a huge increase in deaths and hospitalizations within the next two to three weeks.

Even though the CDC and health experts advised people against traveling this holiday season, the reality is that many people chose to ignore said warnings. And to be fair, some people didn't even have much of a choice with respect to traveling home for the Thanksgiving holiday. As a prime example, many universities are exclusively resorting to remote learning for the rest of the semester. The end result is that millions of college students had no choice but to pack up their belongings and head home this week.

If travel is an inevitability -- and for some, it truly is -- adhering to coronavirus safety guidelines is paramount. For some people, this might mean social distancing and eating outside. For others, especially for those visiting people who are in a risky demographic, this might entail quarantining in a hotel for a few days before heading home. This, of course, begs the question: how safe are hotels when it comes to effective coronavirus prevention?

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