According to foreign media reports, although the new crown virus has surged at an unprecedented rate, millions of Americans have been flying to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s Eve with their family and friends in the past two weeks. On Sunday alone, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened more than 1.3 million passengers, the largest number of U.S. air travellers since the outbreak began earlier this year.
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What is particularly worrying is that this is not a one-off event. On the contrary, since mid-December, the number of passengers traveling through airports across the United States has been steadily increasing. Prior to this, the number of tourists around Thanksgiving increased sharply.
According to reports, since December 18, more than 14 million Americans have been inspected by TSA. Although this number is less than half of what the TSA experienced during the same period last year, considering that people are still in the throes of a pandemic, and the epidemic actually gets worse every week, this is quite Big numbers.
Obviously, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s call for Americans to avoid vacation travel as much as possible did not have much impact.
When Fauci talked about the dangers of traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic a few weeks ago, he explained why even small gatherings of only 10 people are at risk. “Ten may even be a bit too much. It’s not just a matter of numbers, but people who may come from outside the city. You have to make sure that the people around you are not just getting off the plane or train. This is more than the absolute number. risk.”
“You go inside and take off your mask because you want to eat and drink,” Fauci added. “You didn’t realize that there may be someone you know that you love doesn’t have any symptoms, but they have infected the community.”
In view of the above, Fauci and many other health experts believe that January is likely to be the worst month of the entire pandemic. “I think January will be bad, because Thanksgiving will have more people than Christmas. So it is completely conceivable that January may be the worst.”
As far as the current epidemic is concerned, the United States added an average of 212,000 new crown cases every day last week. Although the death rate has been flat in recent days, the number of hospitalizations is still rising, which in turn has caused a resource shortage in intensive care units across the country. At the same time, due to the slower-than-expected promotion of the vaccine in the United States, the United States is currently considering using half the dose of Moderna’s new crown vaccine to speed up the process.
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