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COVID-19 is a highly transmissible disease, and evidence has indicated that small, indoor gatherings are where it spreads most quickly, according to experts. As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released guidelines advising people to avoid traveling and make their holiday celebrations virtual this year to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

\"There is no one silver bullet when it comes to interventions. It's sort of a layered approach,\" said Dr. John Brownstein, an ABC News contributor, epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital. \"Social distancing and mask wearing ... indoor ventilation, limitations on gatherings ... If people are adhering to these general public health guidelines in sort of the broad sense, they've been really successful at driving transmission down.\"

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