International travel COVID testing requirement Ended!

 

 

 

The Biden administration ended the requirement that international travelers test negative for the coronavirus before coming to the United States.  “CDC has determined based on the science and data that this requirement is no longer necessary at this time,” a senior administration official said. The Biden administration announced Friday that it is ending a requirement that international travelers test negative for the coronavirus before coming to the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “has determined based on the science and data that this requirement is no longer necessary at this time,” a senior administration official said. The requirement ends at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. Some experts had noted that the requirement did not seem to be serving much purpose, given that COVID-19 is already circulating widely within the United States. The travel industry had also lobbied to remove the requirement, saying it was no longer needed.

“It’s unclear what pre-arrival testing was actually achieving,” tweeted Jennifer Nuzzo, an infectious diseases expert at Brown University. “My experience getting tested abroad left me unconvinced that tests were actually being performed in a useful way. It seemed more likely that I got a negative result for a price.”

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