To be clear, here is the new CDC advice....

Avoid travel to France.
If you must travel to France, make sure you are fully vaccinated before travel.
Because of the current situation in France, even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants.
Travelers should follow recommendations or requirements in France, including wearing a mask and staying 6 feet apart from others.

So if you are vaxed, wear a mask and stay socially distant, you are fine. I'll be on a flight to CDG again next week. And I won't have any hesitations about later flying to that dangerous country, the USA. :)

If you look at the website of the Paris US embassy you’d think there was mass chaos with their protest warnings…

lol given the number of Americans I heard in Paris and surrounding banlieues last weekend, I don't think most Americans listen to what the US CDC has to say about travel advisory levels and whatnot. :confused:

Some do, some don't. There are plenty of reports in other forums of people getting second thoughts about going to France and other countries after the CDC increased the advisory level to 4. Some have canceled.

Well, more room for the rest of us to properly social distance. :D

Exactly, France has had the most consistent requirements of all of the other EU locations I’ve been to or considered.

Am glad less people are traveling to France and Italy, am heading there in the next couple of days and would like the cities to be empty of tourists.

I just wanted to report that I took my CDC vaccination card to my local French pharmacy to get the Passe Sanitaire and that I had to provide additional info because the handwritten vaccine lot numbers were illegible. I was able to retrieve them online by loggin into “MyChart” via my healthcare provider.

Then, staff was able to issue the Passe Sanitaire. No cost. The whole thing took about 15 minutes.

As a practical question, when going the pharmacy route, do they issue a PDF, provide some link where you can download it, or is it a paper form?

I don’t know if this is the case everywhere, but they gave me a sheet of paper with a QR code. I scanned the code and it prompted me to download the Tous Anti Covid app. Then I scanned the code again and I was all set up in 30 seconds or less. Very easy.

Traveling from Nice France to Italy(US citizen) next month(I hope). Italy just changed their rule to 24 hours for antigen test to enter. Can I walk into a pharmacy in France that is on the list for French health pass conversions, and get an antigen test on the spot? No appointment needed?

I was recently in Lyon where none of the pharmacies offered covid tests. They directed me to the shopping center which had a testing location outside in a tent which surprised me because in Paris I never had an issue finding a pharmacy that offered tests.

Yes, for foreigners I think it's something like 30€ for an antigénique test.

You can go to any pharmacy that does antigen tests, not only the ones converting foreign vaccination certificates into French health pass.

Data point:
Ms SWMBO Stanbury (Canadian) had an antigénique test late September at the Pharmacie in our small village in the south of France. For travel to Italy as it happens. No appointment needed. Result and certificate in 15 minutes. Cost 25 euros.

Just an FYI: When we were in Paris a few weeks ago, there were many pharmacies offering the antigen test. However, if you need a PCR test, you have to go to a lab and most require an appointment.