Kids ought to have the option to go house to house asking for candy this Halloween with two or three provisos, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Sunday.

“I certainly hope so,” Walensky said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” when found out if it’s safe for youngsters to go house to house asking for candy this year. “In case you’re ready to be outside, absolutely,” she said.

The top of the CDC additionally suggested that guardians and children “limit crowds” on Halloween.

“I wouldn’t necessarily go to a crowded Halloween party, but I think that we should be able to let our kids go trick-or-treating in small groups,” Walensky said. “I hope that we can do that this year.”

On Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced a more modest portion of their Covid-19 immunization is protected and produces a “hearty” safe reaction in a clinical preliminary of children ages 5 to 11.

Pfizer CEO and Chairman Albert Bourla said the information would be introduced to the Food and Drug Administration soon.

“It’s a question of days, not weeks,” Bourla said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.”

“Then it is up to FDA to be able to review the data, and come to their conclusions, and approve it or not,” Bourla said. “If they approve it, we will be ready with our manufacturing to provide this new formulation of the vaccine.”

The vaccine for youngsters age 5 to 11 is “33% of the portion that we are providing for the remainder of the populace.”

Meanwhile, as schools are generally back in meeting, the CDC’s Walensky told “For the current Week” that kids who get the Covid are, fundamentally, not getting it while they are at school.

“Our science has actually demonstrated that the disease generally comes in from the community,” Walensky said. “When schools are rehearsing an appropriate alleviation and anticipation system, it isn’t the place where their transmission is really occurring.”

On the off chance that appropriate security precautionary measures are not occurring at schools, transmission is a lot higher, the CDC boss said.

Most schools, 96%, have remained open this school year, Walensky said.

“And yet, we also published a study out of Arizona that demonstrated that places that had no masks in place were three and a half times more likely to have outbreaks than places that did have masks in place,” Walensky said.

“We know how to keep them safe,” Walensky said. “And when we don’t use the proper mitigation strategies, they’re more likely to have outbreaks and have to close.”