Signs of the Epidemic slowing down, TSA statistics to and from the airport boarding passengers and last year, a big increase.
University of Maryland (University of Maryland) researchers found by tracking cell phone signals, although the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia (CCP virus) epidemic declined, nearly 10% of vaccinations but has not yet completely slowed down, but the frequency of people going out, has exceeded the epidemic outbreak before; and the latest statistics from the Federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) also seems to support this trend.
The TSA said airports around the 12th scanned 1,357,000 passengers, a new high since March 15, 2020, indicating that people are gradually resuming air travel as the outbreak eases.
The new crown pneumonia has hit demand for air travel hard, with passenger traffic on U.S. airlines down 60 percent in 2020 and 63 percent in January, and now more people have been vaccinated and demand for flights and advance bookings have increased in recent weeks, but the number on the 12th of this month was still 38 percent less than before the outbreak.
In terms of land transportation, the number of trips per person over one mile, although slightly lower in February when the epidemic rebounded, is now back to 90% of its pre-epidemic level; in the first week of March, the number of trips increased by 13.6% compared to the same period last year, before the start of Home evacuation.
Mofeng Yang, a research leader at the Maryland Transportation Institute, said the prolonged quarantine has left people tired, and “after a long winter and many people being diagnosed, now people just want to be away from home for a while. ” Although cell phone signals do not tell the exact locations people are heading to, he believes people just want a change of space and to get some air in places like parks.
Analysts at Inrix, a data analytics firm, collected car miles and found that the nation’s daily driving distance was about 90 percent of what it was before the outbreak; residents in 15 of the 100 cities monitored by Inrix have driven longer distances than they did at the same Time last year, mostly in less densely populated cities such as Knoxville, Tennessee (Knoxville) and Boise, Idaho (Boise) etc.
Those who spent the most time at home were residents of Washington, D.C., with an average of 9.6 percent fewer trips outside the home; 3.4 trips per person on March 3, lower than the national average of 4.02 trips.
Despite the recent decline in the number of confirmed cases, public health experts still recommend going out less; doing so increases the risk of exposure to others, increasing the risk of infection and spreading the virus.
But some say the increased frequency of trips is actually to be expected; Lorien Abroms, a professor of public health at Georgetown University, says people are feeling safer now and are going outside. “The gradual lifting of restrictions in places like Texas has made people think, ‘Now you can go out and do what you want to do,'” she said.
Some experts say whether people continue to wear masks, maintain social distance and other precautions is far more important than how often they go out.
Amanda Castel, a professor of infectious diseases at George Washington University, said people are at varying degrees of risk whether they drive out to run errands, walk in the park or visit friends and Family.
Most people have not been vaccinated, Castel said, and with a variant of the virus still running rampant, another spike in the outbreak is not out of the question. “This is a very critical time,” she said.
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