Increased travel and Thanksgiving gatherings will likely result in a surge of new coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, scientists and public-health experts say, further accelerating the spread of Covid-19 as the nation experiences record-high cases and hospitalizations, as well as a growing number of deaths.
Leading infectious-disease experts and epidemiologists are urging Americans to take preventative steps now, especially after gathering or traveling for Thanksgiving, by quarantining at home and getting tested to lessen the potential spread.
“The travel that has been done has been done,” said Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert, in an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “We have to be careful now because there almost certainly is going to be an uptick because of what has happened with the travel.”
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