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According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) website, the total number of passengers carried by the US aviation industry from December 18 to 21, 2020 was 4,159,711, a decrease of 59% with compared to the same period last year.

CNN reported that Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said in an interview on the 22nd that if Americans ignore the current dire situation and insist on taking a vacation, January next year can be very difficult. . Fauci said he is not advocating for the cancellation of the Christmas holidays, but hopes that Americans avoid travel as much as possible.

Fauci received the first dose of Moderna’s new coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine on the 22nd. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that 614,000 doses of the new corona vaccine have been administered. throughout the United States.

The United States CDC noted on the 22nd that based on the uninterrupted travel between the United Kingdom and the United States, plus the 17 million confirmed cases in the United States, only 51,000 cases have completed the sequence of the virus, called “SARS -CoV-2 VOC 202012/01 “,” B. The new 1.1.7 mutant coronavirus may have spread to the United States before it was discovered.

The US CDC stated that scientists are working hard to learn more about the mutated virus in order to better understand the difficulty of transmission and whether vaccines currently obtained under emergency clearance can protect vaccinators from harm.

Fox Television reported on the 22nd that Fauci said in an exclusive interview with PBS that he would not be surprised if the new mutated coronavirus had spread to the United States.

According to the official website of the US CDC, “Containing the pandemic” depends on all the tools available. In addition to vaccinations, which include covering your nose and mouth with a mask and staying at least 6 feet away from others, it helps reduce the chance of exposure to the virus or transmission to others.

An article in the journal Physics of Fluids on 22 showed that masks alone are not enough to prevent the spread of COVID-19 if a distance of at least 6 feet from others is not maintained.

According to Worldometer data, the average number of new COVID-19 deaths in the United States was 2,781 in 22 days in 7 days, a record, an increase of 79.7% from a month ago.

In California, the average number of new COVID-19 deaths in California was 259 on the 22nd on a 7-day basis, a record, an increase of 292% from a month ago.

(This article is reprinted with permission from MoneyDJ News; source of first image: Pixabay)

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