CDC offers new recommendations to follow this Thanksgiving 2020
With Thanksgiving only a little over a month away, a lot of us might be thinking about what we’re doing this year. With the pandemic still going on and social-distancing still in place around the country, knowing whether to have you normal Thanksgiving with your family can be difficult.
Luckily, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) just put out recommendations for what precautions they think we should take this Turkey Day. They split different activities into low, medium, and high-risk categories, so let’s start with the low-risk ones.
Some low-risk activities include “having dinner with only the people you live with”, preparing food for family and/or neighbors who are at high risk of getting the coronavirus and delivering it to them on their doorstep or another contact-free way, or “having a virtual dinner with family and friends.” They also recommend “shopping online on Black Friday” instead of going to stores with thousands of people and waiting in long lines.
The CDC recommends shopping online this Thanksgiving season
On the medium-risk activity list, they include having a “small outdoor dinner with family and friends” (if you live in the northern states, this will be a very cold dinner!), visiting pumpkin patches or apple orchids where they have sanitizer available and everyone is wearing masks and social-distancing, and going to a small sports event outdoors with the proper precautions. While they don’t necessarily recommend these things, they aren’t saying “absolutely not” either
Finally, the high-risk activities list includes things like “going shopping in a crowded store on or after Thanksgiving,” “attending crowded parades,” and going to a large crowded family dinner that’s indoors “with people outside your household.” So if you planned to head to grandma’s house with 20-30 of your closest relatives, that’s not something they recommend.
How will your Thanksgiving plans be changing this year due to the coronavirus? Let us know in the comments below!