Travelers to O’Hare Airport in Chicago, USA▶ Click here for a larger view
Ahead of the Christmas holiday, travelers visiting the U.S. domestic airport recorded the highest level since the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
CNN broadcast on the 24th (local time), citing data from the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), reported that 1,911,123 people passed through the airport search desk and went on a trip the day before.
This is the highest number of airport users per day since the corona crisis began this year. The previous record was 1,176,91 people on the 29th of last month, the Sunday immediately after Thanksgiving.
The U.S. started vaccinating Pfizer on the 14th and Modena on the 21st, but health officials appealed to refrain from traveling on Christmas holidays and stay at home, saying that it takes a lot of time to achieve collective immunity through public immunization. .
However, the number of airport users exceeded 1 million on the 18th, a week before Christmas, and over 900,000 to 1 million daily used the airport for the next 6 days, and the cumulative number of travelers reached 6.34 million.
Earlier, the American Automobile Association (AAA) predicted that from the 23rd to the 3rd of the following month, 85 million people would use cars to travel the Christmas holiday.
Travelers undergoing boarding procedures at Chicago Airport, USA▶ Click here for a larger view
The U.S. surpassed 18 million cumulative confirmed cases in the aftermath of Thanksgiving trips and meetings at the end of last month, and Christmas holiday trips and meetings are expected to bring another aftermath.
CNN broadcast said, “The increase in Christmas travelers following Thanksgiving is arousing a new fear that the coronavirus infection will surge again.”
Experts warned that a Christmas trip could return to disaster next year.
Dr. John Brownstein of Boston Children’s Hospital told ABC, “The surge in year-end travel and family gatherings following the Thanksgiving corona epidemic means another spread of the virus. This is a catastrophic effect on the hospital until next February. And will lead to a terrible increase in the number of deaths,” he said.
“We should minimize Christmas travel and avoid indoor meetings,” said Anthony Pouch, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “Until the vaccine has a positive effect on the prevention of coronavirus, we must all observe public health rules.”
The daily indicator of the coronavirus situation in the United States shows no signs of improvement.
According to the’Corona 19 Follow-up Project’, which aggregates the status of corona patients, the number of hospitalized patients as of the 23rd reached a maximum of 119,000,463. It is the 22nd day that more than 100,000 inpatients have been maintained.
LA airport crowded with travelers despite the spread of Corona 19▶ Click here for a larger view
As of the 23rd, the number of deaths per day was 3,359, the third highest since the corona crisis, and the number of new confirmed cases was 228,000,131. Currently, the cumulative number of patients in the U.S. is 18,51 million and the death toll is 327,000.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that the corona cumulative death toll will reach a maximum of 419,000 by January 16 next year as a result of a synthesis of the corona situation prediction models announced by more than 30 organizations.
The University of Washington Medical School’s Institute of Health and Measurement Analysis (IHME) predicted that the number of corona deaths in the United States will reach 567,000 by April 1 next year through a separate analysis.
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