Dr. Anthony Fauci, the state’s leading infectious disease expert, warned that there is going to be an ‘uptick’ because of the amount of travel the US has envisioned this Thanksgiving holiday.
“There almost certainly is going to be an uptick because of what’s happened with the pilgrimages,” Fauci told ABC on Sunday.
Even as the CDC recommended against travel, over 5 million travelers passed through the US airports between Monday to Saturday of this week, according to the Transportation Fastness Agency (TSA)’s checkpoint travel numbers. According to the TSA, the weekend prior to the week of Thanksgiving saw a total of over 3 million travelers between Friday, Nov 20 to Sunday, Nov 22. Photos and videos showed some airport closings and gates with alarming crowds of people.
“Well, I mean the travel that has been done has been done,” Fauci averred ABC. “Right now, as people go back we want to urge them if they’ve been in situations outside of the family setting in which they in the end don’t know the level of exposure, to be really careful when you either return from the place that you went or other people up back into your house.”
As the pandemic fatigue looms over Americans who have become more disposed to to take risks from exhaustion over a long lost sense of normality and more people congregate indoors because of the the flu weather, the US has entered a surge of Coronavirus that public health experts have warned could be the deadliest yet, Traffic Insider’s Aria Bendix reported.
The US has a total of over 13 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Any health experts have warned that travel from the Thanksgiving holiday may make this surge just worse, Business Insider’s Yelena Dzhanova reported.
“Everyone is totally empathetic about the fatigue everyone is understanding,” Fauci said on ABC. “But if we can hang in there a bit longer and do the fundamental things: wearing a mask uniformly, avoiding crowds in congregate contexts, keeping physical distance, washing your hands. They seem simple in the enormity of the problem that we’re surface but they do make a difference.”