It’s time for the family to talk about how to handle Thanksgiving this year. As the pandemic rages on, many of us are longing to see aging parents, old friends, and enjoy some sort of normalcy, especially if it involves turkey, pumpkin pie, and fighting with your siblings over the TV remote.
While it’s still risky to gather with people outside our immediate households, there are some precautions you can take if you travel -- most importantly, keeping up the handwashing, mask-wearing, and social distancing whenever possible.
“Those things don’t go away,” says Dr. Tina Tan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
People on the autism spectrum can have trouble making sense of the social world. They can also be highly focused. For members of Toronto’s ASD Band, that focus is on music, and it's magical.
When manager Andrew Simon heard three of members of The ASD Band, named for Autism Spectrum Disorder, at a charity concert with Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, he decided to help showcase what people on the spectrum can accomplish.
While COVID-19 has made scheduling an in-person concert impossible so far, the band has recorded some of its music. And The ASD Band recently invited people to sing and play along with its version of Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You, Babe,” leading to a flood of contributions from 11 countries, showcased in this YouTube video.
Speaking of traveling, a recent study gives us hope about the future of air travel. NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff takes a look at a new study of long flights from Dubai to Hong Kong, which has a highly-efficient COVID-19 tracking system, on Emirates Airlines, which has a strict face covering policy.
It turns out that although Emirates had 58 coronavirus-positive passengers flying on eight-hour trips between June 16 and July 5, nobody else on those flights got sick. That’s 1,500 to 2,000 passengers who did not contract COVID-19 from the planes. Consistent mask-wearing had a lot to do with the outcomes.
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