The annual fun-filled celebration, Christmas, will be looking very different this year. Due to the alarming rise in numbers of COVID-19, the entire holiday season will be looking a lot different this year. With COVID spreading further and faster, we should all prepare to celebrate with friends and family in a different way.

“Celebrating virtually or with members of your own household (who are consistently taking measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19) poses the lowest risk for spread. Your household is anyone who currently lives and shares common spaces in your housing unit (such as your house or apartment). This can include family members, as well as roommates or people who are unrelated to you,” the CDC says.

Governors across the country are attempting to warn the nation’s citizens of the threat that COVID-19 presents. Even going as far as to make a collaborative video.

“Getting together with your family via Zoom to ensure your loved ones stay safe is the right thing to do,” a governor says.

There is still a chance for people to meet others in person however, but doing so will take immense precautionary measures.

“If you are determined to celebrate holidays with people outside your immediate household, you and the others attending should quarantine for two weeks in advance to make it as safe a gathering as possible. With Thanksgiving coming up on Nov. 27, that means you should start that period now,” the CDC recommends.

With this, stay safe and help stop the spread of COVID in its tracks.

“We’ve got to realize that we do have within our capability to be able to blunt that by doing the simple things that we talk about short of locking down, so we don’t precipitate the necessity of locking down,” Dr. Anthony Fauci says.