> The US already has confirmed community transmission and the suspected case rate is higher in the US the UK. What doesn't make sense is adding unnecessary num

> The US already has confirmed community transmission and the suspected case rate is higher in the US the UK. What doesn't make sense is adding unnecessary numbers and risk to your domestic infection figures. Why would anybody do that? It does not matter which country has a higher case number, what matters is you don't want to add to it by importing cases from other nations. Under your really bad premise, Italy should just keep travel open with the entire world, because they're currently the worst off. Because what Lombardy obviously really needs right now - with a failing healthcare system that is intentionally letting people die in large numbers because they don't have medical resources to go around - is more cases being imported from the outside. The US may be in Italy's shoes in a matter of weeks. Adding more cases from outside, ie reducing available per capita healthcare resources further, is plainly a bad idea.