Tag: thanksgiving

CDC warns against Thanksgiving travel amid COVID-19 surge

Scrap your Turkey Day travel plans — even if it’s only a short distance, the Centers for Disease Control urged Thursday. The public health agency released new holiday guidelines warning people to stay home for Thanksgiving festivities — and to mask up at the dinner table — due to sky-high national coronavirus infection rates. “The

More Americans tabling Thanksgiving travel plans amid COVID-19

Some 50 million Americans are expected to travel for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday — a sharp decrease that could be the largest one-year drop since the Great Recession in 2008, according to a new forecast. The data, released by the American Automobile Association this week, suggests fewer Americans will take to the road, rails and

CDC suggests Americans have Thanksgiving outside

The Center for Disease Control suggested Americans who are hosting Thanksgiving dinners have their meals outside to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. The public health agency gave a number of other suggestions about how to celebrate Thanksgiving safely in updated guidance about the holiday. In addition to an outdoor meal, the CDC said