A volunteer wearing a face mask and a shield distributes a meal at a booth during the October 10 Canadian Thanksgiving holiday in Vancouver. | Xinhua/Liang Sen via Getty Images

11 questions to ask if you really, really want to have Thanksgiving this year.

Thanksgiving 2020 couldn’t come at a more dangerous time, or pose more serious risks for coronavirus spread.

We know Covid-19 spreads easily in households, among people who know each other. We know Covid-19 circulation increases when people spend a lot of time together indoors, talking, eating, and drinking, like Thanksgiving. We know there’s a risk in bringing together people from different generations, from different regions of the country, with different risk factors, to one location, as often happens at Thanksgiving.

We also know the risk of spreading the virus is higher when community transmission of the disease is