As Christmas Nears, Virus Experts Look for Lessons From Thanksgiving
As Christmas Nears, Virus Experts Look for Lessons From Thanksgiving Bryan Denton for The New York Times SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — More than three weeks after Thanksgiving, epidemiologists and local health officials across the country are picking apart the holiday, seeking signs of the pandemic’s latest riddle: the Thanksgiving effect. In the days before Thanksgiving on Nov. 26, infectious-disease experts and elected officials repeatedly warned Americans to limit their travel and family gatherings, fearing the holiday would turn into a nationwide super-spreader event. But experts and d...
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