Instead of killing your relatives, don't go anywhere on Thanksgiving Day.

New York Times

A Thanksgiving like no other.

Americans are preparing for what will be, for many, one of the strangest and most anxiety-filled Thanksgiving holidays of their lives.

They have agonized over travel plans, the size of guest lists, testing, ventilation and the health and safety of their friends and family — all while watching coronavirus cases and deaths skyrocket around them.

The holiday arrives as the surge in the Midwest this fall has grown into a coast-to-coast disaster and new infections soar in cities like Baltimore, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami. Across the country, the number of new cases has never been higher, with more than 175,000 a day, on average over the past week. Deaths topped 2,200 yesterday, the most since early May.