Скачать или смотреть No masks required: Polk County allowing for fairly normal Halloween with trick-or-treating permitted

Despite a rise in Florida's percent positivity, Polk County is moving forward with a fairly normal Halloween.

They are letting families decide whether or not they want to go trick-or-treating and also making masks optional.

Grant Starr is thrilled to be taking his 5-year-old Macy trick-or-treating.

"If we can be safe, we can take precautions to give them a good Halloween. I just think that as a parent it really means a lot to me," Starr said.

The CDC, however, has put trick-or-treating on their 'higher risk activities' list.

Local doctors, like infectious disease expert, Dr. John Sinnott, with USF Health, agree. “We have no business going to strangers houses, they don't want us, we don't want them," Dr. Sinnott said. “And that's a perfect way to spread this illness.”

The CDC has a number of recommendations on how to celebrate and how NOT to celebrate this year.