Thanksgiving is bound to cause a spike in America’s covid infections
Blame resistance to getting jabbed and a lack of home testing
THE THREE-DAY festival in November 1621 that gave rise to the American holiday of Thanksgiving was a celebration of survival. Through the generosity of the Wampanoag Native Americans, about half the English religious separatists who arrived in Massachusetts the previous year had overcome scarcity and disease and lived to see their first successful corn harvest. As Americans prepared for their first Thanksgiving of the covid-vaccine era, disease was once again on their minds.
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United States November 27th 2021
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