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Albany, N.Y. — New Yorkers should keep Thanksgiving celebrations virtual this year to guard against spreading the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today.
“I have said publicly that I think my personal advice is you don’t have family gatherings, even for Thanksgiving,” Cuomo said during a conference call with reporters. "The best way to say I love you, this Thanksgiving, the best way to say I’m thankful for you is to say I love you so much, I’m so thankful for you that I don’t want to endanger you. And I don’t want to endanger our family and I don’t want to endanger our friends.
“So we’ll celebrate virtually.”
A gathering with just a few members of an extended family could be still be dangerous, Cuomo added.
“But again, that’s personal opinion,” he said. “You can do it if you want to do it.”
New Yorkers aren’t barred from leaving the state and others are not prevented from coming in. All travelers just have to abide by the state’s travel advisory, which requires 14-day self-quarantines for people arriving from areas where the coronavirus is still spreading rapidly.
Several states bordering New York have qualified for the state’s quarantine list, but haven’t been officially added. Cuomo is instead discouraging all nonessential travel to those locations.
The advice against holiday gatherings results from rising spread taking place among even small groups, Cuomo said. He ran through a list of some recent small gatherings that have caused outbreaks, including a birthday party in Suffolk County and a church in Lewis County.
“Our problem at one time was large gatherings,” Cuomo said. “We’re now getting it from small gatherings.”
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