The US Had A Record Number Of New COVID Cases As People Start To Travel For Thanksgiving

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On Friday, as people began crowding in airports to travel for the holiday, the US set a daily incidence record with 195,542 new coronavirus cases.

. “It’s just a question of trying to keep them as minimal as possible.”

It does not appear the country will be able to keep it minimal. At the current pace, the US will surpass 12 million total confirmed cases before the end of the month. The country recently surpassed 250,000 total deaths, a number that will likely increase as one projection suggestsOn Thursday, the White House Coronavirus Task Force held a press briefing — its first public appearance in months — at which Vice President Mike Pence tried to offer reassurances about the anticipated vaccines.

"We've continued to be on the same mission we've been on throughout the course of this year and that is to save American lives," Pence said without endorsing the CDC's recommendation for AmericansDr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University School of Public Health, said that even though messaging from the CDC was “a little late,” the agency had been hamstrung by the Trump administration.

“It would have been helpful if we could have been preparing people for months,” she told BuzzFeed News. “But to a certain degree, we did not imagine back in March that this response would be so horrible that we would be looking at 300,000 or 400,000 deaths by the end of the year.”

 

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Flights should be forcibly cancelled to stop people.

They just don’t get it.

It’s stupid that ppl are still travelling

It seems like, many times, governing is like parenting: the only choice you have is to protect people from themselves...

I thought symptoms take 7-14 days to show up How is the surge from holiday travel for a holiday still 5 days away

Awesome All. Enjoy your holidays! (P.S. 'Cases' continue to be 1,000% completely meaningless.)

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