Health officials brace for a surge in US Covid-19 cases after the holidays
By Dakin Andone, CNN
Updated 0132 GMT (0932 HKT) December 27, 2020
US sets another coronavirus record ahead of Christmas holiday
US sets another coronavirus record ahead of Christmas holiday 02:41
(CNN)With Christmas in the rear view mirror, public health experts are bracing for yet another surge in Covid-19 cases, similar to those seen after other US holidays in recent months.
"We've just seen these amplification events, and that's what's happened at the end of this year in the US," said Erin Bromage, an associate professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
"We had Thanksgiving, we had Labor Day, we had Halloween, and each one of these events brought lots of people together and just gave the virus more fuel to move through the population," Bromage said. "Christmas is going to do a similar thing."
Despite warnings by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to postpone travel and stay home, more than 7.1 million people were screened at TSA checkpoints over the last week, according to the agency's numbers.
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