//US airport traffic rising despite holiday travel warnings while COVID-19 surges

US airport traffic rising despite holiday travel warnings while COVID-19 surges

More than 1 million people have passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints in each of the past two days in a sign that public health pleas to avoid holiday travel are being ignored, despite an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases.It marks the first time U.S. airports have screened more than 1 million passengers since Nov. 29. That came at the end of a Thanksgiving weekend