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.)
I don’t know of this having been done to any Covid-19-positive US person for Covid-19.
If a person were on such a list for a communicable disease, they would find out about the DNB when the airline informs them they got a DNB from the filing communications with DHS. They may not know why they got the DNB, but they would know when told at the airport during check-in or boarding attempt that the US has told the airline to not board them. Then they would be referred to deal with the embassy/consulate. This is for flights to the US.
I’ve heard nothing about this hitting any US person for Covid-19 despite the powers the CDC has.