Spoke with a patient of mine yesterday who has worked in pandemic planning - she estimates July as the date that those of us who aren’t super high risk will be able to get vaccinated. I’ve been telling patients who ask sometime between March and June but that’s an optimistic estimate. My concern is that people will assume that since a vaccine is on the horizon, they don’t have to continue their safety precautions now. That could make a difference of 100,000 deaths or more. Too many people will be trading a Family Thanksgiving for an ICU Christmas.
Cook your own bird and Zoom with your relatives.
BTW if it’s your first time cooking a turkey, here’s my method:
Cook the bird unstuffed. Instead put onions and oranges, cut in half, loosely in both cavities. (You can add cloves off garlic and sage if desired). Butter the skin (and I slide some butter with sage under the breast skin).
Cooking time is usually a bit faster than times listed for unstuffed birds because the onions and oranges steam the bird from the inside so use your meat thermometer. Usually takes me about 3- 4 hours to cook a large bird.
