White House largely silent on health precautions for Thanksgiving | TheHill

If extended family or friends do attend, the CDC advises that people wear masks and maintain a distance of at least six feet.The agency on Thursday offered updated guidance that warned against traveling for Thanksgiving this year, citing the increased risk of contracting or spreading COVID-19.While saying little about the CDC guidelines, some White House officials have instead undermined public health guidance and advisories from individual states, further muddying the message at a perilous time in the pandemic.White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany criticized Oregon and New York for warning residents of potential consequences should they violate limits on gatherings during Thanksgiving, even as she acknowledged that “it's up to every state to do what they want to do.”“I think a lot of the guidelines you're seeing are Orwellian,” McEnany said Wednesday on Fox News, a remark she stood by two days later when asked at a rare press briefing whether she was confusing the public by contradicting state guidelines.Scott Atlas, who has solidified himself as President TrumpDonald John TrumpBen Carson says he's 'out of the woods' after being 'extremely sick' with COVID-19 Biden will receive @POTUS Twitter account on Jan. 20 even if Trump doesn't concede, company says Trump to participate in virtual G-20 summit amid coronavirus surge MORE’s top coronavirus adviser despite lacking a background in infectious diseases, bristled Monday night at the idea of excluding elderly relatives from Thanksgiving gatherings, even though those individuals are most at risk for contracting serious cases of COVID-19."This kind of isolation is one of the unspoken tragedies of the elderly, who are now being told, 'Don’t see your family at Thanksgiving,'" Atlas said on Fox News.