Dr. Fauci says we should cancel Christmas and New Year’s to avoid a coronavirus catastrophe

[Yoni Heisler]

• With the coronavirus surging across the country, Dr. Fauci is urging Americans to hold off on traditional Christmas and New Years' Eve celebrations this year.
• Indoor gatherings can easily become superspreader events because people tend to be more lenient about following safety protocols when relaxed at home.
• Hawaii is currently the only state where coronavirus cases aren't skyrocketing.

Despite pleas from the CDC and health experts to avoid Thanksgiving celebrations this year, millions of Americans threw caution to the wind and headed back home last week. And with indoor gatherings accounting for a disproportionate number of coronavirus infections, health experts are now anticipating a surge of new COVID-19 infections is right around the corner.

"You’re not going to see the results of [Thanksgiving] because things lag by a couple of weeks," Dr. Fauci explained last week. "So what we’re seeing now is what happened two-plus weeks ago. What we’re doing now is going to be reflected two to three weeks from now. So what we want to make sure we don’t do, is as we enter into the riskiest part of the year — the weather gets colder, more people stay indoors — that you don’t exactly exacerbate the problem that already exists.”

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