President Donald Trump’s ride outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center can be a teachable moment for drivers and passengers, experts say. If you know or think you are sick, they say, you shouldn’t get into a vehicle unless it’s unavoidable.
Any person known to have or suspected of having COVID-19 should “isolate themselves at home except if he or she needs to get medical care,” said Sonja Rasmussen, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions.
If they have to travel in a vehicle to get care, the driver and passenger should wear masks and the person with COVID-19 should sit in the back seat, or further back if in a larger vehicle, such as a van, she says. “The car windows should be opened and the car vents should be used to bring in outside air.”
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