A general view of the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta on April 23, 2020. (Tami Chappell/AFP via Getty Images) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) on Monday made another sweeping change to one of its pandemic-era responses.
The federal health agency dropped its country-by-country COVID-19 travel health notices that it began issuing when COVID-19 started spreading in the United States in early 2020. Fewer countries are testing for the virus or reporting cases, making it more difficult to calculate travelers’ chances of contracting the virus, the CDC told news outlets.
It said that “as fewer countries are testing or reporting COVID-19 cases, CDC’s ability to accurately assess the COVID-19 ( travel health notice) levels for most destinations that American travelers visit is limited.”
CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said that the health agency will only post a travel health notice for an individual country if a […]
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