New York / Atlanta: Delta variant spread quickly from Coronavirus worrying some US commuters who have returned to busy buses and subway cars because corporate companies try to return to work after more than a year of pandemic disorders.
For New York City Resident Bernice Donkor, the back and forth the subway takes more than one hour, it is difficult to trap chairs.
“I’ve been very worried,” said the 28-year-old city worker.
“I tried to protect myself, intitifying hands, wash my hands as soon as we went to the office and, of course, at home.” In Atlanta, 69-year-old Scott Monty wore a blue face mask when he was waiting for the bus earlier this week.
He headed to the office that was recently reopened.
“I have hypertension, and I’m old, so I have to be careful.
So I say a prayer to God,” said the semi-retired accountant.
“I have a mask and I have God.” Over the past few months this year, pandemics recede as vaccines are widely available and the countries relax most of the restrictions, allowing several aspects of everyday life to continue.
The infection declined, Covid-19 Hospital Wards was emptied, and several businesses began asking remote employees to return to the office after working from home for more than a year.
With a very contagious variant now spur the increase in the cases of US Coronavirus, the thought of returning is taking place.
The White House announced Thursday that people who work for the federal government, the biggest employer in the United States, must show evidence of vaccination or use a mask, train to distance himself and get a regular test.
Giants Tech like Google Alphabet said this week that all US employees had to be vaccinated to step into the office.
But Microsoft LinkedIn now allows most employees to work completely remote.
At school, the Centers of Control and Prevention of US disease (CDC) recently recommended that all students and staff wear masks regardless of vaccination status.
Pandemic Plungepublic Transport Ridership has fallen in US cities during a pandemic.
New York Subway Dipership remains down by around 50% during weekdays, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the largest transit system in this country.
The Bart San Francisco-Bay Area system has an average of 47,000 working days during the first quarter of 2021, about a ninth passenger before the pandemic.
But Bart Ridership has begun rebound – it was more than 88,000 Wednesday, up from around 70,000 two months ago.
Covid-19 transmission in general transit is difficult to determine given the mitigation measures such as masking and social distance placed at the beginning of the pandemic, said Dr.
Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert in Johns Hopkins’s health center in Baltimore.
The mass transit system located in the area with high vaccination rates is best positioned to avoid the outbreak, he added, but “it is unavoidable that there will be distribution and transmission in cars that are not vaccinated.” Many subway riders and buses turn to cars and bicycles during a pandemic.
In October last year, the average number of daily riding Citi bikes taken by New York rebounded from the lowest pandemic position recorded in April 2020 to a higher level than in the same month in 2019, according to the New York City bike share program.
Sebastian Tordilla, 17, said he couldn’t wait to get the SIM so he could get off the bus Los Angeles.
“It becomes very crowded there, many people don’t wear masks, there are new variants, very tight,” said student and restaurant workers part-time.
Other commuters, like Atlanta Chef Chris Rabideau, lack care.
Rabideau, who was fully vaccinated, reading the dog-eared paperback on the hot afternoon when he sat on the bus bench, waiting for No.
6 to take him to work.
“No, covid and delta and anything next don’t bother me.
I just live my life,” said a rabideau reduced, 46.
“If it comes there, I will wear a mask again, but now I’m cool.”