Hey there, LifeKit listeners. I'm Maddie Safaya, host of NPR's shortwave podcast.

And I'm Emily Kwong, sometimes host and reporter for Shortwave. We recently did an episode

together that we thought you'd find interesting. It's useful info about how to deal with the

coronavirus around the holidays. Yeah, and since being useful is LifeKit's thing,

we wanted to share it with you all. Here it is. You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.

Hey everybody, Maddie Safaya here and Emily Kwong. So over the past week, the US has hit a record

number of coronavirus cases multiple times. The US enters the worst stage of the coronavirus

pandemic to date with an unthinkable 1 million new cases each week. And no sign of letting up.

Well, any California is the second state to record more than 1 million coronavirus cases.

And in the past month, the number of people hospitalized with the virus in the US has nearly doubled.

We now have what experts call unchecked community spread in more than 40 states.

Some hospitals and parts of the Midwest are completely at capacity or almost there. And

many of our healthcare workers are exhausted. And this is happening as we're headed into the holidays.

Right. And the reality is when people get together for holidays like Thanksgiving,

it's impossible to be risk-free. All gatherings carry risk. And that risk is considerably greater

when you include people from outside your immediate household.

Yeah, the safest way to do Thanksgiving is actually to stay where you are.

Celebrate in person with those you already live with and virtually with those you don't.

That's what Dr. Anthony Fauci is doing.

I have three adult professional daughters in three separate parts of the country that would require

flying for two of them and driving for another. What we're going to do is we're going to have a meal

with my wife and I and we're going to zoom in and spend some time back and forth with the girls.

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