It's Wednesday, November 24th. I'm Gideon Rezinc.

And I'm Josie Defi Rice, and this is What A Day. Reminding you that at Thanksgiving dinner,

the Marchwellers on Yams count as a vegetable.

Yeah, everything else is in fact a fruit, and it's all filled with antioxidants.

Yeah, 100%. It's basically just like a table of multivitamins. It's all fair game on Thanksgiving.

On Today's show, a jury holds three pharmacy chains liable for contributing to the opioid crisis,

plus a Trump presidency-themed bar opened in Manhattan.

But first, Thanksgiving is almost here in the US, and as the weather gets colder,

for clues on what the pandemic might look like as winter sets in,

we have our eyes on Europe. As you can hear in this BBC report, it's getting pretty serious.

Austria is back in lockdown. It's trying to control a rising COVID infection rate,

and with new restrictions coming in in a number of European countries,

we've seen protests in Belgium, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Croatia.

Once again, we're seeing the tension between public health measures and what some people see

as a constraint on their personal freedoms.

So, can you give us an overview of where things stay on right now?

Yeah, broadly speaking, it does seem to be like the trends are pretty worrying.

Overall, Europe accounts for over half of the global reported COVID deaths this month,

that is according to the World Health Organization.

And right now, there are almost 4,200 European-stying every day.

As we heard in that clip, Austria entered a nationwide lockdown earlier this week.

That is, it's fourth to try and stem a wave of cases.

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