Public health experts are concerned the upcoming holiday season will inflame the already surging COVID-19 pandemic.

They're encouraging people to rethink traditional holiday meals this year with smaller numbers and plenty of precautions, or forgo family gatherings altogether.

Today on Wellness Wednesday we speak with an epidemiologist shares her family's Thanksgiving plans.

Guests:
Alex Hutchinson, science and fitness journalist with Outside magazine, and author of "Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance"
Dr. Dan Waxman, vice president and senior medical director, Versiti Blood Center
Melissa Hawkins, director, Public Health Scholars Program at American University