Experts Warn Against Letting Your Guard Down Against COVID-19 During Thanksgiving

To be sure, it is painful and often lonely to abandon social rituals - all of them, not just Thanksgiving and Christmas but funerals, weddings, graduations, birthday parties and religious observances. "They all affirm our social identity," says Elizabeth Connick, chief of the infectious diseases division at the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Tucson. "I fear that some people simply can't bear to stay away. They will attend social gatherings, and some will get infected."