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CDC recommends not traveling for Thanksgiving
« on: November 24, 2020, 08:55:18 pm »

From NEJM Journal Watch (November 19, 2020):
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Holiday travel warning: The CDC strongly recommends that people not travel for Thanksgiving, agency officials said in a Thursday briefing. Roughly 1 million new COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed in the U.S. in the past week. "Exponential growth in cases, and the opportunity to translocate disease from one part of the country to another, leads to our recommendation to avoid travel at this time," said Dr. Henry Walke, COVID-19 Incident Manager. The CDC recommends celebrating only with people from your household, defined as those who live in the same house in the 14 days before the celebration. For people who choose to host others, the agency offers guidance on how to do so as safely as possible, like spacing chairs far apart, celebrating outdoors, and laying out mask expectations for guests ahead of time.

There are people who have had MS for decades, and in those decades they've never had Thanksgiving. Impoverished by MS, they can't afford to buy prepared meals. Friends and family tend to dwindle away and forget about them. Sometimes friends and family just don't feel up to coping with a person's wheelchair or other special situations.

But for those who observe Thanksgiving, the CDC guidelines sound sensible.

Except that in many parts of the country, by Thanksgiving time snow is often on the ground, and I'm not sure how many people will be setting up a Thanksgiving table outdoors....
« Last Edit: November 25, 2020, 08:37:17 pm by agate »
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