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The next problem is the testing infrastructure. Few labs (if any) do PCR tests with results guaranteed in the next 72h in major US cities. What if test results
by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
The next problem is the testing infrastructure. Few labs (if any) do PCR tests with results guaranteed in the next 72h in major US cities.
What if test results are late? Should you delay and take the first flight after getting the results? Now the test was taken 4 days or more before the new flight. Should You take another test?
Airlines or countries that do not want to welcome travelers without a recent, <72h PCR test should set up the necessary infrastructure in the city of the departure airport.
- murgindrag 6y agoSeems like a perfectly fine way to realign incentives a bit! If you need a recent test result before entering an airport, you'll have airlines screaming to get some of that test infrastructure in place yesterday.
- bosie 6y agowhat you described is the problem and responsibility of the individual. i don't see why it should be at the departure airport, that is an unnecessary scaling issue for countries/airlines. make it at the arrival airport, if the traveler doesn't have a valid recent test, he can take it again at the arrival airport + mandatory quarantine (and by that i mean in a nearby facility escorted by police). If you want to travel, it should be your responsibility to not infect everyone else...
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- mnm1 6y agoThere are tests that come back in 90 minutes now. If the testing infrastructure is not up to par, and it certainly isn't, then people don't fly. Very simple. This isn't a game. I'd hope that we'd have sorted our testing out by now but that looks like it won't be sorted out this year at all and possibly never. If countries don't want coronas coming to them, they should just ban flights from the US. Otherwise, they should accept that they will be infected. Once again, very simple.