As COVID-19 Cases Climb, How Safe Is It To Go Home For The Holidays?
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🗓️ 26 October 2020
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As cases surge throughout the country, many people are wondering how to plan for the holidays. Is it safe for kids to see their grandparents? Should people be gathering as usual for big Thanksgiving dinners? How should people travel — to drive or to fly?
You sent us your questions — and we put them to NPR's Allison Aubrey and David Schaper, who reported out some answers ahead of a usually busy season for gathering and travel.
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| 0:00.0 | With COVID cases surging across the country, you might be wondering how to handle the holidays, |
| 0:06.4 | whether you should be doing say a big thanksgiving gathering. |
| 0:10.2 | Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. |
| 0:12.7 | Two. |
| 0:13.9 | And I'm looking forward to it with our family. |
| 0:16.7 | Vice President Mike Pence, for instance, is being asked those questions. |
| 0:20.1 | With a big, with extended, I think that's a decision every American family can make. |
| 0:25.8 | Based on the circumstances in their community, the vulnerability of particular family members. |
| 0:31.6 | Days after this 60 minutes interview taped, five people who work closely with Pence |
| 0:37.4 | ahead of the White House coronavirus task force tested positive for coronavirus. |
| 0:42.4 | The Vice President himself and his wife have tested negative so far. They're still campaigning. |
| 0:47.6 | So CDC guidelines say that Vice President Pence should quarantine for 14 days. |
| 0:53.2 | Now, I understand the White House is trying to get around that by saying the Vice President |
| 0:56.6 | is an essential worker. But Mark, how is going all the way? |
| 0:59.8 | That was CNN's Jake Tapper talking with White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, on Sunday. |
| 1:05.5 | Meadows defended Pence's decision to be on the campaign trail. |
| 1:08.4 | CDC guidelines does say essential personnel. |
| 1:11.5 | Yes, it says they wear a mask. If they wear a mask. |
| 1:14.1 | And I spoke to the Vice President last night at midnight. |
| 1:17.6 | And I can tell you that what he's doing is wearing a mask, socially distancing. |
| 1:21.7 | And when he goes up to speak, consider this. |
| 1:24.8 | Last Friday, the US hit its highest number of daily coronavirus cases yet. |
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