Despite all the warnings, the advice to stay at home and the fact that the more we fly, the longer this COVID-19 pandemic will last, Americans continued to fly for the holidays. And our prenatal peak of people flying to see their loved ones has been rivaling our pre-pandemic numbers.
O Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that people not traveling on vacation instead of spending time with people who alreadyady I was in the house with them. If you really I owe travel, the CDC asked people to consider the impact of doing so, including the burden of local hospitals and the fact that they unintentionally brought the disease into a home that was previously unaffected.
And yet, the day before Christmas Eve, 1,191,123 people boarded flights in the United States, NBC reports—The largest since March, when the pandemic was still in its infancy stages in this country. A similar peak was seen during Thanksgivivacation, but March 16 was the last day that more than 1.1 million people flew.
In the week leading up to the Christmas holiday, more than three million people boarded the flights. Although these numbers are significantly lower compared to travel in, say, 2019, they are still getting higher.
After the Thanksgiving holiday, COVID-19 cases started to increase, probably as a result of travel and closure, without a mask contact with people outside your bubble. In the two weeks after Thanksgiving, cases of COVID-19 among TSA agents increased by a national average of 38 percent, Forbes reported.
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A similar trend occurred in Canada after the country celebrated Thanksgiving in October. Ontario recorded a record number of cases two weeks after Thanksgiving, The Washington Post reported. The province responded with bans on indoor dining and other collection restrictions.
The protracted nature of winter holidays is also a cause for extra concern now, as it is usually not a one-day affair. Families meet for several days in a row, and there is an emphasis on going out to visit as many relatives as possible. And that’s not taking into account the upcoming New Year celebrations, which are likely to be their own can of worms.
It is not yet known how the increase in travel affects the country, but it does not look promising.