The U.S. is reporting an average of more than 93,000 new COVID cases each day.
Travelers carry luggage as they arrive at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., Nov. 23, 2021.
Nationally, the U.S. is reporting more than 93,000 new COVID-19 cases each day, up by 46% since late October. 32 states -- nearly all of them in the north or mountain region -- have seen an uptick in daily cases of 10% or more in the last two weeks. In Illinois, daily cases are higher than at any point over the summer, and in Minnesota, federal medical staff have been sent in to help overwhelmed hospitals.A child receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at an elementary school vaccination site for children ages 5 to 11-year-old in Miami, Nov. 22, 2021.
The magnitude of the geographic area seeing a COVID-19 resurgence is growing, according to a recent forecast released by the PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. A total of 53.4 million people are expected to travel for Thanksgiving, up 13% from 2020, according to estimates from AAA. In the last five days alone, the Transportation Security Administration reported it has already screened 10.5 million people through checkpoints.Although positive COVID-19 cases among the unvaccinated do appear to be on the rise, due to waning immunity, health officials say the vast majority of infections and severe hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated.
In September, unvaccinated individuals had a 5.8 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19, and a 14 times greater risk of dying from it, as compared to vaccinated individuals.
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