 only with people in our immediate household. It sounds harsh when a politician like Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer tweets, if you are planning to spend Thanksgiving with people outside of your own household, I urge you to reconsider. But COVID is for real. It killed 4,000 Americans in just the last two days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 1 million new COVID-19 cases in the United States just last week.