Ignoring CDC warnings, more than 1 million passengers have flown from US airports for 10 straight days

Spring break is here and people suffering from a year of cabin fever are throwing caution to the wind. Saturday marked the 10th straight day on which more than 1m passengers traveled through American airports. The TSA reported 1,369,180 travelers passed through security checkpoints Saturday, a day after air passengers set a new pandemic record, when 1,468,516 traveled through TSA security. That's a worrying sign for health experts: Although millions of Americans have been vaccinated, the US CDC continues to recommend that people avoid travel. It has so far declined to issue new guidance on travel for vaccinated Americans out of concerns prompted by travel-related surges that the United States encountered during previous holiday periods. "What we have seen is that we have surges after people start traveling, we saw it after July 4, we saw it after Labor Day, we saw it after the Christmas holidays," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said last week. Walensky said because 90% of people remain unvaccinated, the CDC will wait to update guidance.<br/>