Chicago’s mayor has canceled Thanksgiving this year, as California and other jurisdictions across the United States issue increasingly strict rules governing personal behavior in hopes of containing the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19.
The actions come as a health policy adviser to former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate in the still-contested presidential election, said the United States would benefit from a nationwide lockdown of up to six weeks and that the country could afford it because interest rates for borrowing money are low and people have saved up a lot of money this year, The Hill reports.
