Doctors say many deaths happening now were likely fueled by Thanksgiving travel andgatherings, since Covid-19 deaths typically happen weeks after infection"We were bracing for this and hoping that we were wrong," said Dr. Esther Choo, a professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. And Thanksgiving, we saw the kind of travel that happened then. And people who are hospitalized in ICUs and dying now -- many of them are because of the Thanksgiving surge." "And it's not just the travel, it's what's happening on the other end -- where they're traveling to -- which is a lot of family-and-friend gatherings. Some researchers think the strain likely arrived in the US in mid-November, and that many people in the US could already be infected with it.

Source: CNN December 23, 2020 06:49 UTC