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Masks at Thanksgiving? Here Are Some Better Ideas
Four smart ways to reduce Covid harm without cutting people off from essential human contact.
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Thanksgiving 2021 should be the reward for abstaining from 2020 celebrations until Covid-19 vaccines rolled out. Why not? The virus is still very much around, but times really have changed.
Remember those 11th-hour pleas from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to cancel last year’s gatherings as a big fall surge was building? They were reasonable, then: Big holiday celebrations pose some of the worst risks of viral transmission, with lots of people mixing in badly ventilated houses for long periods of time.