"The reward system is absurd, and leaves travelers in a state of flux."
As a warning to anyone planning travel this summer, it's not only China using a reward/punishment approach. When 12 passengers on a Qatar flight to Greece tested positive a few days ago, Greece suspended all Qatar flights until June 15, upending the travel plans of anyone with a booking in the next two weeks.
https://neoskosmos.com/en/166946/ath...k-australians/
Just because someone else does it, doesn't mean it is not absurd. The reward system downloads testing responsibilities to the airlines, who are not equipped to handle the testing, and even with the false negative rates of existing tests, that airlines may still end up carrying asymptomatic patients. With China's record of transparency, who knows is US will trust the testing results provided by China.