[ti:Thanksgiving Celebrations Changed by COVID]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
[00:00.04]The COVID-19 pandemic
[00:02.72]is affecting Thanksgiving holiday plans
[00:05.88]for many American families.
[00:09.36]The Associated Press reports that coronavirus cases
[00:14.20]are rising at a worrying speed across the United States.
[00:20.56]The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center says
[00:25.44]the virus has killed over 250,000 people nationwide.
[00:32.88]Many people are getting infected every day.
[00:37.36]The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week
[00:42.64]released guidelines on the safest way to celebrate Thanksgiving.
[00:48.12]The CDC is advising Americans not to travel over the holiday this year.
[00:56.20]And it is urging them against spending time with people
[01:01.16]from outside their immediate household.
[01:05.60]The warning is some of the firmest guidance yet from the CDC
[01:10.76]on how to limit the spread of the virus.
[01:14.96]The health care system is under great pressure in many communities.
[01:20.32]Sick patients are filling up hospital beds,
[01:24.48]while some medical workers are getting sick themselves.
[01:30.68]Holiday celebrations seem like a perfect way to spread the coronavirus.
[01:37.92]In some families, people come together from different parts of the country.
[01:44.12]Holiday gatherings usually include many generations
[01:48.60]-- from young children to their grandparents.
[01:53.24]Older adults may have health problems
[01:56.12]such as diabetes, obesity, or heart disease.
[02:02.20]The CDC website says that these conditions raise the risk
[02:07.40]"of severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19."
[02:13.52]And people may not know they are infected with the coronavirus.
[02:19.24]Experts note that students returning home from college
[02:23.32]may carry the virus and not know it.
[02:27.12]Younger people are more likely to have asymptomatic infections.
[02:33.76]Experts have been advising people to limit their contact
[02:38.04]to a single group of people, called a "bubble."
[02:42.96]Less contact with people outside the bubble
[02:46.32]means a lower risk of infection.
[02:50.72]Thanksgiving usually
[02:52.52]is the busiest travel period of the year in the United States.
[02:56.92]Some 50 million Americans travel 80 or more kilometers
[03:02.44]to share a meal with friends and family.
[03:06.40]This information comes from AAA, an automotive and travel group.
[03:13.20]Crowded buses, trains, and waiting rooms with poor ventilation, or airflow,
[03:20.00]are places where the virus can easily spread.
[03:25.12]The longer the trip, the higher the risk.
[03:28.60]Airplane travel is less clear.
[03:33.32]The dangers begin before getting on a plane, train or bus,
[03:38.08]notes Cameron Wolfe, a professor at the Duke University School of Medicine.
[03:45.96]Gathering family members and friends indoors
[03:49.64]for long periods of time raises the chances for the virus to spread.
[03:56.64]This is happening already, notes Doctor Anthony Fauci,
[04:00.92]head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
[04:08.04]"If you look around the country now, many of the infections
[04:12.12]are in small family-and-friend gatherings
[04:15.52]such as dinner parties and small social gatherings," he said.
[04:21.60]Fauci explained that the danger is when one person
[04:25.52]who is asymptomatic and infected gets others infected.
[04:32.36]The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says
[04:36.84]that about 40 percent of those infected do not have clear symptoms
[04:42.80]but can still spread the virus.
[04:47.32]Getting tested for the coronavirus before traveling might be helpful.
[04:52.92]However, experts urge caution.
[04:56.40]Most rapid tests do not work well
[04:59.68]for people who are not showing signs of the disease, they note.
[05:04.20]Even the best tests can miss an early infection.
[05:09.88]And people can get infected in the time between getting tested
[05:14.80]and when they arrive for holiday celebrations.
[05:18.56]I'm Anna Matteo. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
END OF TRACK. "END OF TRACK." The two men bowed. "Whoever was that person you were talking to?" she enquired, as soon as they stood together. The took of triumph faded from her eyes, she had grown worn and weary. The roses were wilting on the walls, the lights were mostly down now. Hetty, looking in to see if anything was wanted, found herself driven away almost fiercely. I only saw Master Jervie once when he called at tea time, The year 1747 was opened by measures of restriction. The House of Lords, offended at the publication of the proceedings of the trial of Lord Lovat, summoned the parties to their bar, committed them to prison, and refused to liberate them till they had pledged themselves not to repeat the offence, and had paid very heavy fees. The consequence of this was that the transactions of the Peers were almost entirely suppressed for nearly thirty years from this time, and we draw our knowledge of them chiefly from notes taken by Horace Walpole and Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. What is still more remarkable, the reports of the House of Commons, being taken by stealth, and on the merest sufferance, are of the most meagre kind, sometimes altogether wanting, and the speeches are given uniformly under fictitious names; for to have attributed to Pitt or Pelham their[112] speeches by name would have brought down on the printers the summary vengeance of the House. Many of the members complained bitterly of this breach of the privileges of Parliament, and of "being put into print by low fellows"; but Pelham had the sense to tolerate them, saying, "Let them alone; they make better speeches for us than we can make for ourselves." Altogether, the House of Commons exhibited the most deplorable aspect that can be conceived. The Ministry had pursued Walpole's system of buying up opponents by place, or pension, or secret service money, till there was no life left in the House. Ministers passed their measures without troubling themselves to say much in their behalf; and the opposition dwindled to Sir John Hinde Cotton, now dismissed from office, and a feeble remnant of Jacobites raised but miserable resistance. In vain the Prince of Wales and the secret instigations of Bolingbroke and Doddington stimulated the spirit of discontent; both Houses had degenerated into most silent and insignificant arenas of very commonplace business. "It certainly will be. Miss Widgeon," answered Maria, with strictly "company manners." "One who has never had a brother exposed to the constant dangers of army life can hardly understand how glad we all feel to have Si snatched from the very jaws of death and brung back to us." "Just plug at 'em as you would at a crow, and then go on your way whistlin'?" persisted Harry. "Hurroo!" echoed Hennessey; "that's the ticket." "Come forward, keeper," continued the baron, "and state how these arrows came into your hands!" "Yes." HoMEJULIA京香2018下载
ENTER NUMBET 0015www.yzkqfd.com.cn
joe924.com.cn
www.zjiyes.com.cn
yrgmgj.com.cn
www.carste.com.cn
cq-niit.com.cn
yoyoex.com.cn
www.ccsight.com.cn
xfcaj.com.cn
h-ping.com.cn