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50M Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving despite COVID-19 surge

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Some 50 million Americans are expected to travel for Thanksgiving, according to one estimate — despite cautionary pleas from health officials as national COVID-19 …
Some 50 million Americans are expected to travel for Thanksgiving, according to one estimate — despite cautionary pleas from health officials as national COVID-19 infection rates surge. The forecast from AAA and IHS Markit, who anticipate the millions of trips to occur over the five-day stretch from Wednesday, Nov.25 to Sunday, Nov.29, MarketWatch reported. The group estimated 55 million people traveled for the holiday in 2019. Of those trips,95 percent will likely be by car, while 2.4 million will be on airplanes — a sharp decline from 4.

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