Will the US plan for testing travelers from China help stem the spread of COVID?

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The CDC announced this week it would require a negative COVID-19 test from all travelers arriving to the U.S. from China as well as those from Hong Kong and Macau.

Wednesday that nearly half of passengers on two flights from China to Milan tested positive for the virus.

Workers wearing protective masks and suits help Chinese travellers leaving the arrival hall of RomeFiumicino International Airport, near Rome, Dec. 29, 2022 after being tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus."Pre-departure testing is not a fool-proof method to limit the spread of COVID," said Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor. "It's hard to see a significant public health value.

He continued, "But at this point, the United States has seen so many waves of infection that probably the scariest variant wouldn't do as much damage as if it were a naive population, like in March of 2020."Chin-Hong explained that this means because most of the U.S.

 

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Should for everyone who want to came into United States don’t forget a lot country artist died cause the covid and lots get sick …,we need to protect our citizens regardless … life is only one we afford to lose more citizen

Here we go… Read the G-20 Summit Declaration, it clearly states, vax travel pass is on the global agenda. It’s no surprise there is no “xenophobic” push back from the blue lemmings, the left wing media and other countries especially China. This is the ice breaker of their plan

But thankfully they didn't call it 'The China Virus'.

Racist AF

Fantastic!!!

It still amazes me the lunacy of this admin. I bring in a refugee family here legally but, they had to have a health check, updated immunization, even COVID. Southern border? Nah, we don't care. America is being run by idiots now, plain and simple.

The racist Biden administration starts in a few days?

Nope. Because just like before-it’s already here.

What a waste of time and energy…not to mention the false notion that these PCR tests provide any security or protection for the public…didn’t we just “lockdown” millions, that’s MILLIONS, of asymptomatic citizens who tested positive only to discover that the tests are BULLSHIT!

That xenophobic!! Ohhh it’s (D) ifferent because they are doing it. Got it

Biden’s Administration is Racist 🤔

Isn’t that racist?

Well looks like the CDC and Biden administration are a bunch of racist

The most concerning variant to date is thought to have originated in New York so maybe they should be requiring us to test

Wow isn’t that racist

Utterly racist policy.

No

Very responsible & fair decision regardless of the response from China that it’s discriminatory -:)

Or else what? Are we quarantining people now?

Sounds awfully racist.

Sounds xenophobic. 🤡

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