Ask the Docs: As COVID case numbers rise, how to mitigate risk during the holidays

The holidays are here, offering hope and respite after another difficult year. But some people are worried: COVID numbers and hospitalizations are increasing here in Massachusetts.

Should you change your holiday plans? What's your best protection? And could treatments, like new pill from Pfizer, offer any hope?

We take all your questions on this week's Ask the Docs with Dr. Cassandra Pierre, an infectious disease physician, assistant professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, medical director of Public Health programs, and associate health epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center; and Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician, public health physician, epidemiologist, and director of the Program for Global Public Health and Common Good at Boston College.