More than 616,000 people were screened at TSA checkpoints across the country on Christmas Day alone, and hundreds of thousands of people traveled during the holidays. The numbers are expected to rise again this weekend.
“People who are traveling may not be camping in the desert. They may be having dinner without seeing their loved ones and wearing masks. There is no longer a crowd inside the house,” said Dr. Emergency Physician. Lena Wayne told CNN. “There are a lot of people who have Covid-19 and don’t know it and then it spreads to their loved ones, and then they’re going back to their home communities and then inadvertently infecting someone else.”
“What worries me is that the same individuals will then be in hospitals in the ICU, for a period of two to three weeks.” “I’m really worried about this surge that we’re going to see and how we’re going to cross the 400,000 death toll.”
Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. of Baylor College Ledge Medicine. “These estimates are just nightmarish,” said Peter Hotez. “People can still save the lives of their loved ones through social distance and the practice of masks. And remember, vaccines are around the corner.”
The case and another increase in hospital admissions will inevitably lead to more deaths – already on top of the devastating death toll.
Experts say vaccine roll-outs have been slow in some places
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S., and more than 9.5 million doses have been distributed.
That number now includes both Pfizer / Bioentech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines. And while there are flaws in data reporting, some experts say the vaccine is not running as fast as distribution officials had hoped.
It was founded by Dr. Est, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Reagan Health and Science University. “It’s a very complex thing. At every step, there are complications and delays, whether it’s individual state planning, allocation, training, vaccine collection, storage … there are a lot of factors at this stage.”
“We need to be prepared for the fact that it is slowly rolling out in many places and that it will not change our behavior or change the pace of the epidemic in this country any time soon,” Chu said.
Lime’s words echo those of many other experts who have warned the American public not to leave their bodyguards and wear masks as soon as vaccinations begin, to avoid social distance, to avoid crowds and gatherings, and to follow public health measures, including regular hand washing.
It is likely that the vaccine will not be widely available until summer and begin to have a meaningful impact on the course of the epidemic, officials said. Dr. Anthony Fawcett estimates that about 70% to 85% of the population needs to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to gain the country’s mass immunity.
Expert: Test requirements will not help control the Covid-19 variant spread
Passengers travel from the UK to the U.S., with documentation of their laboratory results. The flight to must have a negative PCR or antigen test within 72 hours of the flight. Airlines will have to confirm the test before the flight.
But one expert says new testing requirements for travelers in the U.S. have not been implemented as quickly as the report would be effective against the variable.
“It makes sense that we put new measures in places where regional ambiguity is experienced,” Dr. Richina Bickett, an emergency medicine physician, told CNN. “But if they are trying to ensure that the virus is not imported into the United States, this measure will have no effect on it.”
Boycott added, “The CDC requirements do not apply until Monday.” Until then, there are thousands of people, if not from the UK to the U.S. There were not thousands of people traveling in. So, there is a possibility that the new variant is already in the United States and we do not know. ”
CNN’s Holly Silverman, Virginia Langmaid and Pete Muntea contributed to this report.
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