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After big Thanksgiving dinners, plan small Christmas funerals, health experts warn

Mississippians should plan “to have very small Thanksgiving gatherings” with only nuclear family members this year to stay safe amid the covid-19 pandemic, Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs and other public health officials warned on Friday.

“You’re going to have a lot of sick folks who caught (covid-19) during Thanksgiving. We know this is the perfect milieu, having young folks and old folks and folks with chronic illness around the table, and then death,” Dobbs said during a sober Mississippi State Medical Association Zoom meeting with fellow physicians on November 12.

The state’s top health official urged Mississippians who are having small holiday gatherings to observe 6 feet of social distancing and to hold the gatherings outdoors, where the chance of transmission is lower.

“We don’t really want to see Mamaw at Thanksgiving and bury her by Christmas,” MSMA President Dr. Mark Horne said during the meeting, concurring with the state health officer.

“We’re going to see some of that. It’s going to happen,” Dobbs replied. Horne agreed.

“It’s going to happen. You’re going to say hi at Thanksgiving, it’s so nice to see you, and you’re either going to be visiting her by Facetime in the ICU or planning a small funeral by Christmas,” the MSMA president said.

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