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Coronavirus updates: Thanksgiving parade goes on without crowds; Supreme Court blocks NY worship restrictions; CDC projects 321K deaths - USA TODAY
Nov 26, 2020 2 mins, 46 secs

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade marches on, but the balloons are distancing.

Like pretty much everything in 2020, Thanksgiving is looking a lot different due to COVID-19.

"I know the country has grown weary of the fight,” President-elect Joe Biden said in a Thanksgiving Eve address urging unity.

In Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous, public health officials said infections are skyrocketing, with approximately one out of every 145 people infected with the virus.

For weeks, public health officials repeated warnings not to travel this Thanksgiving as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths soar, yet millions of Americans still took the skies and highways to see loved ones and families, risking infection for a holiday together.

Disney plans to layoff around 32,000 more employees in the first half of 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic continue to beleaguer its theme park businesses.

The United States is still severely undercounting the number of COVID-19 cases it has across its population, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report says.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade celebration is still happening this year, but it will look and feel a little different due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 94th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will air from 9 a.m.

“For New Yorkers who typically see it live and in person, this change for them is that they are going to experience it the same way the rest of the country experiences it," said Susan Tercero, executive producer of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

They’re still going to see the floats.

They’re still going to see Santa and Broadway and all of these elements that they’re used to seeing every single year.

They’re still going to see those things.

But it’s still going to be the parade they know and love.”.

Amy Acton, the surging coronavirus pandemic is the public health equivalent of the Titanic, and not all Ohioans will be able to get on a lifeboat in the end.

"So, we're going down.

When the pandemic first hit Ohio, Acton and epidemiologists at Ohio State University predicted the state could eventually report around 10,000 new COVID-19 infections per day.

It's so bad,: Acton said, adding "We're going to face a moment here, I think it's going to peak within the next two weeks.

… We're going to see that we have a humanitarian crisis on our own soil.".

The Supreme Court placed religious freedom before pandemic precautions Wednesday night, temporarily blocking recent rules in New York that severely restricted gatherings at houses of worship in areas hit hardest by COVID-19.

Kenneth Remy knows the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on U.S.

student achievement is the latest postponement amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced Wednesday.

This latest outbreak comes as Ohio continues to see soaring daily numbers of COVID-19 cases

Mink infected with a mutated strain of COVID-19 in Denmark appear to be rising from the dead, igniting a national frenzy and calls from local officials to cremate mink carcasses

While the sight itself is certainly terrifying for the residents of West Jutland, a region of the country grappling with confirmed COVID-19 cases connected to mink, there is likely a scientific explanation for the zombie-like reemergence from their graves

“In this way, in the worst cases, the mink get pushed out of the ground,” Kristensen said of the nightmarish sight

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