Why do they even have the authority to over rule CDC ?
State Dept is who arranged for the flights.
We were wondering about this, on previous thread, when they allowed the infected ppl to fly with the non-infected.
More, here....
....The U.S. said it arranged the evacuation because people on the Diamond Princess were at a high risk of exposure to the virus. For the departing Americans, the evacuation cuts short a 14-day quarantine that began aboard the cruise ship Feb. 5.
The State Department announced later that 14 of the evacuees received confirmed they had the virus but were allowed to board the flight because they did not have symptoms. They were being isolated separately from other passengers on the flight, the U.S. State and Health and Human Services said in a joint statement.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said Sunday that an infected person who shows minimal symptoms could still pass the virus to someone else.....
What’s going to be interesting, is if these other passengers (the non-infected, at time of flight) become infected.