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(Reuters) -Skyrocketing COVID-19 cases hobbled U.S. airline staff on Monday, causing hundreds of flight cancellations, and prompted the country's top infectious disease expert to suggest the government consider a vaccine mandate for domestic air travel.
Monday's air travel woes capped a glum Christmas weekend for thousands of stranded passengers waiting in airport queues and on customer service phone lines to re-book flights, often days after originally planned.
Rising infections from the Omicron variant forced airlines to cancel flights as pilots and cabin crew fell sick and needed to quarantine.
A total 1,130 flights into, within or out of the United States were canceled by Monday afternoon, according to the flight tracking website flightaware.com. Airlines said the virus and bad weather both were to blame.
The average number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States has risen 55% to over 205,000 per day over the last seven days, according to a Reuters tally.
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top U.S. infectious disease expert, on Monday recommended the federal government consider a vaccine mandate for domestic air travel.
"That is just another one of the requirements that I think is reasonable to consider,” Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease official and a member of the White House COVID-19 response team, told MSNBC in an interview.
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Totally freaking ridiculous. The fact that this new variant is spreading without deaths or significant sickness and trying to blame on the unvaccinated for the mutations when people that are fully vaccinated can still get covid and do especially with this variant I would not trust anything this fucktard has to say. Please get some credible experts in here what is happening now is not working at least not in the media convincing anyone of this BS.
Monday's air travel woes capped a glum Christmas weekend for thousands of stranded passengers waiting in airport queues and on customer service phone lines to re-book flights, often days after originally planned.
Rising infections from the Omicron variant forced airlines to cancel flights as pilots and cabin crew fell sick and needed to quarantine.
A total 1,130 flights into, within or out of the United States were canceled by Monday afternoon, according to the flight tracking website flightaware.com. Airlines said the virus and bad weather both were to blame.
The average number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States has risen 55% to over 205,000 per day over the last seven days, according to a Reuters tally.
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top U.S. infectious disease expert, on Monday recommended the federal government consider a vaccine mandate for domestic air travel.
"That is just another one of the requirements that I think is reasonable to consider,” Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease official and a member of the White House COVID-19 response team, told MSNBC in an interview.
Fauci says U.S. should consider domestic flight vaccine mandate; more planes grounded
SEATTLE (Reuters) -Rising COVID-19 cases, along with bad weather, caused airlines to cancel more than 1,000 flights on Monday, and the spread of the Omicron variant prompted the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert to suggest the government consider mandating vaccines for domestic...
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Totally freaking ridiculous. The fact that this new variant is spreading without deaths or significant sickness and trying to blame on the unvaccinated for the mutations when people that are fully vaccinated can still get covid and do especially with this variant I would not trust anything this fucktard has to say. Please get some credible experts in here what is happening now is not working at least not in the media convincing anyone of this BS.
