Coronavirus
A Dangerous Coronavirus Variant Is About To Become Dominant In the U.S.
CNN)Experts are worried some Americans are letting up too early — at a critical time when looming dangers are threatening to wipe out the progress, the US has made in its battle against Covid-19.
At least a dozen state leaders have eased Covid-19 restrictions this month, often citing improving Covid-19 trends and growing vaccination numbers. At the same time, air travel is hitting pandemic-era records and the first spring break crowds have begun descending on Florida and other sunny regions while cases of a dangerous variant are on the rise.
The Transportation Security Administration said it screened more than 1.3 million people at airports Sunday — meaning about 5.2 million travelers flew since Thursday. That’s the highest number of people that have traveled by air during any other four-day period of the pandemic.
