Dr. Kavita Patel on travel bans: 'They really don't have any evidence of utility, particularly within the case of Covid.'
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demonstrated that travelers from Europe were likely responsible for introducing the virus in New York City before the city's early surge in spring 2020.
So do travel restrictions have any utility? Absolutely: They were considered essential public health toolswhen dealing with highly communicable diseases and limited ports of entry, such as ships arriving in Sicily with rats, sailors and cargo carrying the plague. Such a scenario rarely exists today, a point that was reinforced when, prior to Covid-19, the World Health Organization madeto denounce travel bans or restrictions.
South African epidemiologists and health officials have long been respected globally for their ability to gather data and quickly translate insights into action. Given the likelihood of new variants that threaten the public developing in the foreseeable future, the Biden administration must follow the lead of our African colleagues to quickly identify and inform the world of global threats. In a sense, this is a higher priority than anything else, since unlike other nations, the U.S. has plentiful access to vaccines and boosters but lacks a national surveillance network.
By contrast, what we have in the United States is a clunky patchwork of data sources from labs, clinics and hospitals given to counties, states and, finally, eventually, to the CDC, which usually takes weeks, if not months, to produce a highly edited academic report in the form of the historically lauded
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