Despite all the warnings, the tips for staying home and the fact that the longer we want, the longer this COVID-19 will be the pandemic will last, the Americans have kept flying for holidays. And our rise before Christmas of people who wanted to see their loved ones has been unrivaledour pre-pandemic numbers.
He Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised people no travel for the holidays, instead of spending time with people they already haveady been home with them. If really must during the trips, the CDC asked people to consider the impact of doing so, including overwhelming local hospitals and inadvertently taking the disease to a previously unaffected home.
And yet, the day before Christmas Eve, 1,191,123 people took flights to the United States, NBC reports—The maximum since March, when the pandemic was still in its incipient stages in this country. A similar rise was seen during ThanksgivingDuring the holidays, however, March 16 was the last day more than 1.1 million people flew.
The week before the Christmas holidays, more than three million people boarded flights. Although these figures are significantly lower compared to trips from, say, 2019, it is still higher and higher.
After the Thanksgiving holidays, COVID-19 cases began to increase, probably as a result of travel and close, without masks contact with people outside the bubble. In the two weeks following the thanksgiving, COVID-19 cases among TSA agents increased by a national average of 38 percent, Forbes reported.
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A similar trend took place in Canada after the country celebrated its Thanksgiving in October. Ontario recorded a record number of cases two weeks after Thanksgiving, The Washington Post reported. The province responded with bans on covered food and other meeting restrictions.
The extension of the winter holidays is also a cause for additional concern, as it is generally not a one-day affair. Families get together for several days at a time and the emphasis is on going out to visit as many family members as possible. And that doesn’t even take into account the upcoming New Year’s Eve celebrations, which will likely be their own can of worms.
It remains to be seen how it affects the rise of travel in the country, but it doesn’t look promising.