On Friday morning, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington urged their residents to avoid all nonessential interstate travel in the days ahead, joining their counterparts across the country in pleading with residents to take precautions. As the holiday season approaches, many people are anticipating gatherings that look markedly different from last year. Like thousands of others, my husband and I canceled our plans to visit a neighboring state for Thanksgiving. And although not yet experiencing a second wave, California on Thursday reached the grim milestone of one million cases, according to The New York Times’s database. Health officials also announced this week that 11 counties moved back into a more restrictive tier of the state’s reopening system.

Source: New York Times November 13, 2020 13:30 UTC