7:01 p.m. ET, December 22, 2020 Fauci warns of a "superimposed" surge on top of the current surge if people travel for the holidays From CNN’s Shelby Lin Erdman CNN If Americans disregard the dire situation already underway as the coronavirus rages across many regions of the country and travel for the holidays anyway, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is warning of a “difficult” time next month. “As you might imagine, it's quite concerning to me,” Fauci told CNN on Tuesday. The Transportation Security Administration is reporting record-high pandemic travel and said that it screened more than 4 million air travelers between Friday and Monday.