Did you gather for Thanksgiving? Dr. Birx says to assume you now have COVID-19

[Yoni Heisler]

• If you got together with family and friends on Thanksgiving, you should get tested for the coronavirus over the next few days.
• Given that the coronavirus spreads rapidly in indoor settings, Dr. Deborah Birx said that the working assumption should be that anyone who gathered for Thanksgiving has the virus.
• With COVID-19 still surging, Dr. Fauci recently said that people should hold off on traditional Christmas celebrations this year.

According to Dr. Deborah Birx -- who currently serves as the coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force -- anyone who attended a Thanksgiving gathering last week should assume that they have the coronavirus and, in turn, get tested soon. Brix's advice comes in the wake of a Thanksgiving holiday that saw millions of Americans travel across state lines to visit friends and family.

"We know people may have made mistakes over the Thanksgiving time period," Birx Birx said during an interview on CBS' Face the Nation. "If you're young and you gathered, you need to be tested about five to 10 days later. But you need to assume that you're infected and not go near your grandparents and aunts and others without a mask."

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