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    So You Traveled Over Thanksgiving. Now What?

    Experts suggest being extra-careful over the next week or two if you gathered with others outside your pod. That means masks, getting tested and assuming you might be infected with the coronavirus.
    by Laurel Wamsley Nov 30, 2020 3 minutes
    A traveler waits for a flight at Portland International Airport in Oregon last week. Public health experts say it's important that people who traveled or gathered with others are especially careful over the next two weeks.

    Despite the repeated warnings of public health experts and officials, millions of people traveled for Thanksgiving.

    Perhaps you're one of them.

    So what should you do now to keep from creating the "surge upon a surge" of coronavirus cases that Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning the U.S. could soon face?

    "You have to assume you were exposed and you became infected"

    Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House's coronavirus task force, has this advice: Assume you picked up the

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