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Travel Surges as COVID-19 Cases Spike
Despite a rise in COVID-19 cases, the Transportation Security Administration screened at least 1 million people on four of the last 10 days through Sunday. That's still only half the volume from the same period last year.
December 2, 2020
Thanksgiving week saw the largest number of airport travelers since March.
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Despite appeals from health authorities and government officials warning against traveling for Thanksgiving, almost 1.2 million people traveled through airports Sunday, according to MSN.
During four of the days from Nov. 21 - 30, the Transportation Security Administration screened about 1 million people. However last year, nearly 2 million people were screened per day.
Data from Johns Hopkins University shows that the seven-day rolling average for daily new cases in the U.S. is more than 160,000.
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