CDC recommends against Thanksgiving travel amid surge of coronavirus cases

[DonViejo]

Source: Washington Post


By Brittany Shammas
November 19, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EST

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With Thanksgiving a week away and coronavirus cases exploding across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended against traveling or gathering for the holiday, urging Americans to consider celebrating in their own households instead.

In the agency’s first news briefing in months, officials said they were alarmed to see 1 million new cases reported across the United States within the past week. As the nation’s death toll since the start of the pandemic reached 250,000, officials spoke of the risks in stark terms, warning that as friends and relatives get together over the holidays, they could inadvertently bring the deadly disease with them. Tragedy could follow, they said.

“At the individual household level, what’s at stake is basically the increased chance of one of your loved ones becoming sick and then being hospitalized and dying,” said Henry Walke, the CDC’s covid-19 incident manager.

Beyond that, he said, holiday-related infections could spread through communities, reaching other vulnerable individuals and accelerating the already dire outbreak

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/19/cdc-thanksgiving-travel-covid/

[FloridaBlues]

1. It's about time. I hope Biden administration remove some of these people in the CDC going forward

Never have we seen such incompetence in our CDC.