Experts fear the holidays will fuel the U.S. crisis
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Hard-hit California eclipsed 2 million coronavirus cases on Christmas Eve as the U.S. headed into a holiday season of travel and family gatherings that threaten to fuel the deadly outbreak across the nation.
Despite warnings from public health experts to stay home, over 1.19 million travelers passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints Wednesday down by about 40% from a year ago, but the highest one-day total since the crisis took hold in mid-March.
Airports also recorded around 1 million travelers on each of the five days between last Friday and Tuesday.
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The country s most populous state had recorded 2,010,157 infections as of Thursday afternoon. The California Health Department has not yet updated its daily figures.
California s Nurses Fear What s to Come: ‘Walk Down Our Unit for a Day Close to 19,000 people were hospitalized in the nation s most populous state. Models project the number could top a once-unthinkable 100,000 in a month.
Published December 24, 2020 •
Updated on December 27, 2020 at 11:56 am
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The nurses of California are afraid.
It’s Christmas Eve, and they aren’t home with their families. They are working, always working, completely gowned up and worn down.
They’re frightened by what people are doing, or not doing, during a coronavirus pandemic that has already killed more than 320,000 nationwide and shows no signs of slowing down.