LOS ANGELES — For the last two years, Thanksgiving served as a sobering reminder of the COVID-19 pandemic’s staying power.
For each, the holiday essentially marked the turbocharged start of the severe fall-and-winter COVID-19 wave, which both resulted in the deadliest surges of the pandemic, killing thousands of Americans a day.
But there’s some guarded optimism that this winter might be different — or at least not as bad as the 2020 and 2021 surges.
