CDC Ends Country-By-Country Covid-19 Travel Health Advisories
I n yet another sign that the world is moving past the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer maintaining a country-by-country list of Covid-related travel advisories, the agency said Monday. From here on out, the CDC will only issue a travel health notice for a country if there is a concerning Covid-19 variant or other situation that would affect the risk of traveling to that country. This change comes because “fewer countries are testing or reporting Covid-19 cases,” which has limited the agency’s ability to accurately assess the risk level for travelers, the agency said. “The CDC is working with other countries to try to match the wastewater surveillance and other techniques so that even without that reliable testing that we've depended on, we have other ways of looking for an uptick around the world,” physician and former Obama health advisor Dr. Kavita Patel told MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire. Since spring of this year, the CDC ha...