With some states extending stay-at-home orders, some families may be toying with new living arrangements — but adding someone to your household doesn’t come without risks. (WBEZ)
Stay-at-home signs are displayed on a fence in Wheeling, Ill. With the state's stay-at-home order extended for another month, some people are toying with the idea of adding others to their household.Illinois' extended stay-at-home order comes with slight relaxations — like the opening of garden centers and golf courses in some parts of the state.
Still, she knows that another month of staying at home means families could be considering new living arrangements. These may include welcoming in an elderly parent, taking in a grandchild or bringing home a child who's been living with the other custodial parent. All these unique factors — responsible kids, scientific backgrounds, parents working from home and deep trust — make Northwestern Medicine's Dr. Tan doubt the process could work for many families. Even if most people are observing social distancing, she said, all you need is one person to break the rules,"as we saw with those people having the party last weekend. ... So the bestthing is that you just don't bring [other people] into the household.
"In that case, maybe it's just safer for people to bring stuff to grandma [where she lives] and wear a mask and see her periodically that way," Landon said. "In that case, you can minimize that risk by having the other person be in pretty strict quarantine for two weeks at home before they come to be with you," said Landon with UChicago Medicine.
"You'd want to be extra careful about cleaning surfaces, washing hands, and you could even wear a fabric mask at home," she said."You sort of have to follow the risk level of the highest risk person in the household," Landon said."So bringing a grandmother into a quarantine family may mean everyone has to curtail their actions a little bit more."
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