Posted on 03/07/2023 10:03:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Biden administration is preparing to relax COVID-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The people, who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the administration has decided to roll back the testing requirements as cases, hospitalizations and deaths are declining in China and the U.S. has gathered better information about the surge.
The restrictions were put in place on Dec. 28 and took effect on Jan. 5 amid a surge in infections in China after the nation sharply eased pandemic restrictions and as U.S. health officials expressed concerns that their Chinese counterparts were not being truthful to the world about the true number of infections and deaths. The Washington Post was first to report on Tuesday about the expected administration move.
At the time, U.S. officials also said the restriction was necessary to protect U.S. citizens and communities because there was a lack of transparency from the Chinese government about the size of the surge or the variants that were circulating within China.
As part of its response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year expanded genomic surveillance at several U.S. airports, collecting voluntary samples from passengers aboard hundreds of weekly flights from China, and the testing of wastewater aboard airplanes. The Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance Program will continue to monitor travelers from China and more than 30 other countries. …
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Because OF COURSE they are...
Brilliant.
This country deserves to die.
We even pine for our own death.
Yep. We seem fine as a country to just let our government and others stomp and kill us. All done with nary a shot fired. Who needs gun control laws when a spineless citizenry will suffice?!
How about travelers from Canada? Apparently the big guy didn’t get 10 percent from Canada.
Do “we”?
Sorry, but I refuse to refer to the deep state as “this country”.
Well, lead the way, General. Very big on talk, but what’s the battle plan?
They should test them for being Chicom.
No party members or associates should be allowed here.
Bird flu soup this time?
SwineFlu-23-absolutely-not-gain-of-function-made-in-a-lab-by-Dr.-Fauci’s-NIH-and-purposely-released-by-the-PRC
At least that’s the working name for it as of now.
We shouldn’t let any of these yellow bastards into our country. Soon we won’t have a country left.
They’ve been coming across the border for months on end Joey. FJB.
But they won’t let in the world’s number one tennis player who is not vaxxed but had Covid twice to play a tennis tournament. This insanity is unsustainable.
How many .gov officials have you shot today? Most people learn from example. Are you providing that example?
Were the old testing standards applied to the Chinese that crossed the southern bordern with the hordes?
EC
Yet you still need to be “fully Vaccinated” with vaccines that don’t work any more.
We need to get a new government. This one is terrible.
Meanwhile , imagine what would happen to you if you entered China with Covid.
This is another invitation for China to nuke us with another disease
Um-hmm.
By order of the ROC government.
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