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Assessing COVID-19 Risk For Thanksgiving Celebrations

COVID-19 risk index (Courtesy of Erin Bromage)
COVID-19 risk index (Courtesy of Erin Bromage)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that you stay home this Thanksgiving and only celebrate with people who have been living with you for the last two weeks.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Erin Bromage, associate professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, about celebrating Thanksgiving in a pandemic.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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