Millions of Americans, tired of being trapped by the pandemic, are expected to take to the road this Labor Day weekend despite a coronavirus crisis that continues to generate more than 30,000 new cases a day and shows few symptoms of slowdown.
And the chosen destination, according to the TripIt online page, is a state where the coronavirus crisis continues incessantly: Florida.
“Florida claims the highest percentage of Labor Day flight bookings this year, with 12% of all plans adding a destination in the Sunshine State,” states say.
By comparison, this time last year, the percentage of Florida flight bookings is 4%, according to TripIt.
Florida reported that 633,442 showed cases of COVID-19 and 11,647 deaths on Friday, two discouraging figures that rank it third in the country by number of cases and fifth in the country for deaths, according to statistics compiled through NBC News.
Another favorite destination for travelers this weekend?TripIt is said to be Hawaii, a state that has been experiencing an increase in new cases lately.United Airlines has increased its service to Hawaii after a 50% increase in bookings on Labor Day weekend, he said..
But without the knowledge of the travel website, the Hawaii Tourism Authority has extended mandatory quarantine for 14 days for all passengers arriving until October 1, so if you expected to be on Waikiki Beach this weekend, you must replace your plans.
Public fitness experts are involved and many Americans are able to do so after months of staying there.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist, said the number of new cases is declining, but the country is still far from the target of 10,000 new or less consistent cases on the day it expected to succeed until September.
Fauci, speaking Wednesday on NBC’s “Today,” shared a Labor Day weekend warning.
“When you have vacations like Labor Day, we saw, after July 4, after Memorial Day, a build-up of cases,” Fauci said.”Wear a mask. Keep your social distance. Avoid crowds.Maybe that kind of comes up. You don’t have to be someone to spread the epidemic.It must be a component of the solution, not a component of the problem».
In the two weeks leading up to the four holidays in July, there were 590,7four1 new instances shown of COVID-19, according to an ANALYSI of the figures to be obtained through NBC News.jumped through 866.83four.
However, the trend was different before and after Memorial Day.There were 314,108 cases in the two weeks leading up to this public holiday and the number decreased slightly to 293,915 cases in the following two weeks.
But at the time, the pandemic faded in the northeastern states that were most affected at first, such as New York and New Jersey, and were beginning to take off in the southern states and Sun Belt, such as Florida, Arizona, and Texas.are led by Republican governors who, at the request of President Donald Trump, were already reopening their states.
California, which has a Democratic governor who ignored Trump and took competitive action from the start to deal with the crisis, also experienced a big uptick when he reopened and now leads the country with 722042 instances.new instances and hospitalizations has declined.
In a sign of how far New York has come since March and April, when it became the country’s COVID-19 hot spot, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Wednesday’s malls could reopen to 50% of its capacity.will reopen on the same day, but at a capacity of 25%, he said.
Masks and social estating regulations remain in place in grocery shopping at malls and casinos, and Cuomo sends state inspectors to casinos to make sure other people don’t play with other people’s lives.
Trump planned to post a Labor Day message Thursday afternoon in which he suggested that all Americans wear a mask that would oppose COVID-19, a challenge he helped politicize by refusing, in the first place, to wear one.
Under Trump’s supervision, the fatal pandemic has claimed nearly 187,000 lives in the United States, with more than 6.1 million cases recorded, two world-leading figures, according to nbc News’ most recent figures.
The United States now accounts for about a quarter of more than 26 million cases and about one-fifth of the approximately 865,000 deaths worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 control panel.
Meanwhile, baseball enthusiasts lamented the death of Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, who helped take the so-called “Miracle Mets” to the first New York Team World Championship in 1969, and who fought dementia when he died of COVID-19 on Wednesday.Array I’ve been 75 years.
And in London, England, production of Batman’s most recent film, titled “The Batman,” stopped after a team member fell ill with the coronavirus.Actor Robert Pattinson stars in the film.
In developments:
Unemployment applications for the first time in the last week of August fell to 881,000, the lowest weekly level overall since the pandemic took off and destroyed Trump’s thriving economy inherited from President Barack Obama.The figures for more than one million unemployment programs over two weeks is that the government has replaced the way it adapts to seasonal fluctuations in the task market.Economists say it ignores the inevitable fact that the economy is still in nearly thirteen million tasks compared to the country in February,” NBC News reported Thursday.
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican in the midst of an unforeseen re-election battle, got stuck echoing a discredited conspiracy theory that government statistics on coronavirus infections and deaths were inflated while talking to a voter.everyone said he was just repeating what he had heard.But when the query network turned into a torrent, Ernst began to retreat and then issued a message saying, in one component, “More than 180,000 Americans died from COVID-19” and “what issues is that Iowa gets the mandatory resources.Needs.” Iowa is lately a hot spot for coronavirus.The number of cases in Iowa has soared in recent weeks and fitness experts suspect that this component of the explanation is that cyclists who attended last month’s big rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, have brought more cases home.COVID-19.
The University of South Carolina reported that 1,026 cases showed coronavirus cases last week, resulting in the closure of several fraternities and sororities, as well as a crackdown on academics and student organizations that hosted giant parties in defiance of the rules. schoolchildren. Giant outbreaks have also been reported across the country. Indiana University has to close all sorority and fraternity houses on its flagship campus in Bloomington after an increase in the number of new instances.SUNY Oneonta in New York sent its fellowship home for the remainder of the year. semester after 389 academics on campus tested positive. Temple University in Philadelphia followed suit after 237 academics and a school worker caught the virus. The University of Tennessee lately has 308 active instances and 1,442 academics in quarantine. At the University of Missouri, which has 516 active instances, 330 academics faced disciplinary action for violating the school’s Covid prevention rules.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told governors last week to prepare for the “large-scale” distribution of a possible coronavirus vaccine until November 1, two days before the presidential election.Trump is a boost, Fauci said the Federal Food and Drug Administration was attracting attention, not the White House.”The FDA has been very transparent about it doing a data-driven resolution as it arrives,” Fauci told CNN.the date of November 1 is just a goal.” I mean, if you look at the registration screening and the kind of things you want to make a resolution if the vaccine is safe and effective, most of us expect it to be in November, December, at the end of this year,” Fauci said.Could it be sooner? Of course.