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2020-11-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

[HuffPoo] Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert on the White House’s coronavirus task force, predicted Sunday that the number of COVID-19 infections will skyrocket over the next several weeks as millions of Americans travel during the holiday season.

The U.S. experienced a surge in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in recent months, and public health officials warned that those numbers could jump during the winter as Americans experience "COVID fatigue."
Flu deaths are remarkably low so far, two months into the flu season. Maybe because a flu + COVID death gets reported as a COVID death with an influenza comorbidity. After all, the most common comorbidity is "Influenza and Pneumonia".

Fauci and other task force members urged Americans to refrain from traveling to visit loved ones over the holidays to avoid spreading the virus. But millions of Americans bucked that advice and packed airports in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.

"We have to be careful now," Fauci told ABC’s "This Week" on Sunday. "There almost certainly is going to be an uptick because of what’s happened with the travel."
Or because of the season. Or both.
He added: "We may see a surge upon a surge. We don’t want to frighten people ~~too much~~, but that’s just the reality. We said that these things would happen as we got into the cold weather and as we began traveling, and they’ve happened. It’s gonna happen again."

Fauci said it’s unlikely the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will relax its holiday gathering guidelines ahead of Christmas.
I think it's likely many people will travel for Christmas, unless they're sick (or dead) from traveling in November.

Posted by Bobby 2020-11-30 12:54|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Keep on crying wolf.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-11-30 13:58|| 2020-11-30 13:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't the entire point of rushing to get vaccines out — and they are apparently already being shipped — is to prevent exactly this?

Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-30 14:12|| 2020-11-30 14:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Fauces can piss right off.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-11-30 15:13|| 2020-11-30 15:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I see those masks really work....so does social distancing.

As someone on another network says, "virus gonna virus".

Posted by Clem 2020-11-30 17:35|| 2020-11-30 17:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Awww, SHADDUP! >:-(

Posted by Barbara 2020-11-30 17:52|| 2020-11-30 17:52|| Front Page Top

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