With USA mask mandate ending, will the USA entry COVID test go away?
Apr 19, 2022, 7:40 pm
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Apr 19, 2022, 8:24 pm
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I drove into the U.S about 4-5 times after the land borders are open, only one time the cbp offiicer asked if I am vaccinated but didn't ask me for any proof, other officers just completely ignore the vaccine requirement.
Apr 19, 2022, 8:30 pm
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Apr 19, 2022, 8:33 pm
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Walensky received her MD in 1995. She started teaching medicine at Harvard in 2001, having been a research fellow since 1998. She became the chair at the NIH AIDS reseach council in 2014. Kathryn Kimbell was born in 1987 and received her law degree in 2012. What kind of bizarroworld are you living in where you believe the Walensky is less qualified than Kathryn Kimbell? You really need to find a source of news that does not avoid libel lawsuits by calling itself "entertainment news."
It seems you're trying to get the thread locked with OMNI-type content, so I'm done replying to you.
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Apr 19, 2022, 8:39 pm
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Apr 19, 2022, 9:28 pm
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The biggest mistake made was not waving the testing requirement for Vaccinated and/or boosted US Citizens-I know the perception of intl' travelers as affluent/more likely to be vaccinated, but it may have had a slight positive impact on vac. rates, especially among the folks who fly Spirit/Southwest to CUN/PUJ/MBJ for cheap vacations.
Apr 19, 2022, 9:33 pm
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It should be noted that if they had it their way, we'd all be required to get endless shots just to work and put food on the table. Thankfully the Supreme court got that one right.
Apr 19, 2022, 9:34 pm
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The biggest mistake made was not waving the testing requirement for Vaccinated and/or boosted US Citizens-I know the perception of intl' travelers as affluent/more likely to be vaccinated, but it may have had a slight positive impact on vac. rates, especially among the folks who fly Spirit/Southwest to CUN/PUJ/MBJ for cheap vacations.
Apr 19, 2022, 9:36 pm
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The problem is the "experts" in infectious disease have been dead wrong nearly every step of the way. We were told to not mask, then mask, then double mask. We were told to stay 6 feet apart, which by the CDC's admission was a number pulled out of thin air. We know that the vaccines have a very limited window of efficacy, and then the vaccinated can spread COVID and contract it just as much as the unvaccinated. The goal posts have moved so many times, we can't even see the original starting point. The CDC and current administration will give no criteria for when they will end the masking, testing, vax requirements etc. So a judge ended some of it for them.
It should be noted that if they had it their way, we'd all be required to get endless shots just to work and put food on the table. Thankfully the Supreme court got that one right.
It should be noted that if they had it their way, we'd all be required to get endless shots just to work and put food on the table. Thankfully the Supreme court got that one right.
Apr 19, 2022, 10:36 pm
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Not arguing with the point that vaccinated people can catch and spread COVID, but outside of travel, more vaccinated people would have had the effect of lowering the number of hospitalizations and deaths, which is a good thing. For travel, yea probably not much actual effect.
Apr 19, 2022, 11:49 pm
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IMOH, the judge gave the current admin cover for lifting the mask mandate because no one wanted to take the political risk. I think it will take another judge to rule on covid testing to give them more cover to say "we tried but a Trump judge" said no no. Also, the current talk about appealing if the CDC wants it would be total political suicide at this point based on my non scientific reading of all the celebrations from both passengers and FA's aboard the planes.
Apr 19, 2022, 11:49 pm
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This has got to go. In fact I would have traded wearing masks another 20-30 days for removing this immediately. Overseas testing within 24hr of flight is a burden.
I appreciate UA’s travel ready site and clearly outlining the requirements and links to abide by them. It is pretty clearly spelled out. But I hope that site can be condensed to just 1-2 exceptions soon!
Incidentally, I can’t recall a transpac in the ‘00s or ‘10s without 20-40 mask wearing passengers, which I assume will continue.
I appreciate UA’s travel ready site and clearly outlining the requirements and links to abide by them. It is pretty clearly spelled out. But I hope that site can be condensed to just 1-2 exceptions soon!
Incidentally, I can’t recall a transpac in the ‘00s or ‘10s without 20-40 mask wearing passengers, which I assume will continue.
Apr 20, 2022, 12:04 am
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The virus doesn’t stand a chance against those UA branded industrial strength wipes.
the onerous testing should have been limited to unvaccinated if only as further incentive to get jabbed. Putting it on everyone, especially now, is going way too far.
Hopefully UA and the airlines can lobby to end this requirement as well
the onerous testing should have been limited to unvaccinated if only as further incentive to get jabbed. Putting it on everyone, especially now, is going way too far.
Hopefully UA and the airlines can lobby to end this requirement as well
Apr 20, 2022, 12:05 am
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(I'm opposed to the testing, too, but if only one of the two is going to be kept, the testing is the obvious choice.)
Apr 20, 2022, 12:08 am
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The rapid tests aren't even that accurate, so there's no need to set that as a requirement to board a plane for the US. Wearing a mask is really not that big of a deal. I don't understand why anyone would rather take a rapid test over wearing a mask.