Originally Posted by
GUWonder
There is over a month for the additional opening standards to be set. Regardless of which date the additional opening goes live, they will need to come up with the standards for the additional opening to foreigners. There are only so many ways to cut a diamond without ruining it, regardless of when the diamond is to be delivered as cut and polished. Much the same with the additional opening standards.
In this case are they cutting a diamond or polishing a turd?
Originally Posted by
Boraxo
I would be surprised if US authorities sign off on the Sputnik (Russian) or Chicom aka Sinovac. Their science and testing programs have zero street cred in USA.
But impossible to predict, we just saw a small thaw with China…
According to this WaPo article FWIW, Sinovac will be allowed (as it's on the WHO list) but Sputnik and, at the moment Covaxin, won't be.
Washington Post: New U.S. travel rules close door on those fully vaccinated with Russia’s Sputnik V
The new U.S. plan requires that most noncitizens seeking entry to the United States are vaccinated with shots approved for emergency use either by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or the World Health Organization. That includes vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, as well as shots developed by Chinese firms such as Sinopharm and Sinovac...But Sputnik V, an adenovirus vaccine developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, has yet to be approved by the WHO. The global health agency this week said that it suspended its review process of the vaccine, citing concerns over the manufacturing practices at production plants inside Russia and whether the vaccine can be consistently produced to the necessary standard.