Originally Posted by
l etoile
The US CDC prevents airlines from being able to print boarding passes for people with certain communicable diseases of concern to public health, most often tuberculosis and measles, but sometimes COVID and now monkeypox.
The CDC says they remove people within 24 hours of getting recovered letters from physicians, and does a sweep every two weeks to make sure they didn’t miss anyone.
I’m curious if this works as well as presented. Anyone ever on this list and have difficulty getting off of it?
(I assume several here have been on it and possibly never knew because it did work.)
This is the first I've ever heard of this. You learn something new every day on FT. I'm curious to see the replies.
The CDC probably knew I had covid (since it's reportable and I tested at a doctor's office) and I certainly didn't send anyone a recovery letter (because I never got one). I first flew about 2-3 months later and had no issues