About 6 million Americans traveled over this past Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, in a nation that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic for 15 months.Last year, Memorial Day weekend celebrations set off the second wave of virus activity across the country, but this year, widespread vaccination of Americans 12 and older led to less ominous predictions about summer travel and health.
The 37 million Americans planned to travel 50 or more miles over the weekend, up 14 million from last year. Data from the Transportation Security Administration show that nearly 2 million people passed through airport security checkpoints last Friday, a new daily pandemic record, the Washington Post reports.The United States reported