LOS ANGELES - Nearly 2.5 million people were screened by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents on Sunday, Nov.
28, the most since the pandemic began according to the agency. TSA tweeted on Monday that travel volume for the 10 days leading up to Nov.
28 was 20.9 million people, roughly 89% of pre-pandemic levels. TSA officers screened 2,451,300 individuals on Sunday, a new pandemic high.
For the 5-day holiday weekend Wed thru Sun, volume was 10.1M, according to the TSA. The high volume of holiday travel is a cause for concern for health experts raising alarms over the newly discovered coronavirus omicron variant.This past weekend, President Joe Biden urged Americans to get vaccinated and to receive a booster shot amid worries.