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Chasing Life

Talking Turkey

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Thanksgiving is just around the corner but Coronavirus cases are surging in some states. Should you bring the family together, keep the celebration local, attend a parade? Whether you're hosting a feast or keeping it virtual, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has some tips. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Oh, yeah, well, we are a very rigid family when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner.

0:09.0

Every year, Cindy McMahon and her family, the four McMahon siblings and their mother,

0:14.2

would come together in New Jersey and share an extravagant dinner that Cindy cooks up.

0:19.0

It is the stuffing and the gravy with the gigantic turkey that I take out of the refrigerator

0:25.6

at four o'clock in the morning and you know, do all that preparation.

0:30.6

So by the time anyone wakes up, they can smell the aroma of the roasting turkey on Thanksgiving

0:37.6

warning and the sweet potatoes and the twice baked potatoes.

0:41.6

Even though we're in a pandemic, Cindy was determined to make Thanksgiving happen.

0:47.6

To figure it out, she even put together a spreadsheet where she listed out all the relevant details

0:53.4

about our family members and tried to calculate the COVID-19 risk for each individual person.

0:58.4

I decided that I would fill in for each individual, you know, age and comorbidities.

1:06.4

Who do they come into contact with?

1:09.4

And whether there was some way we could in fact be together sitting across from each other

1:16.4

at the dining room table, have enjoying our meal without our masks on.

1:22.4

How can we have a relatively normal Thanksgiving in anything but normal times?

1:30.4

I'm sure we all have similar questions on our mind right now.

1:34.4

Thanksgiving is right around the corner.

1:36.4

In this time each year, we're usually starting to plan our road trips back to grandma's house

1:41.4

or the menu for Thanksgiving dinner.

1:43.4

But for Cindy, really for all of us, this is not any other year.

1:48.4

And this Thanksgiving is probably going to look and feel a lot different.

1:53.4

So today I'm going to go over some of the things we should keep in mind as we make our holiday plans.

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