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I was terribly frustrated by the google results for "covid test to fly domestic". The "hoisted" response was: "Get tested at least 5 days after your last cl

I was terribly frustrated by the google results for "covid test to fly domestic". The "hoisted" response was: "Get tested at least 5 days after your last close contact and make sure your test result is negative and you remain without symptoms before traveling. If you don't get tested, delay travel until a full 10 days after your last close contact with a person with COVID-19." Domestic Travel During COVID-19 | CDC https://www.cdc.gov › coronavirus › 2019-ncov › travelers You need to look closely at this first hit to realize it dates from 2019 - and is therefore completely useless. Clicking through takes you to a 2022 page with somewhat more complete information, but when I first saw that - two hours before I had to leave for an emergency flight, I was in a horrible panic.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> You need to look closely at this first hit to realize it dates from 2019 No, it doesn't. It couldn't, because there were no tests for COVID-19 in the US until Feb 2020, so the CDC could not possibly be recommending testing before domestic travel in 2019. (The 2019-ncov refers to the novel coronavirus identified in 2019, not the date of the article.) It may be outdated (the CDC has changed recommendations frequently), but it's not from 2019.
- salgernon 5y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out, both of you! (If not more by now.) Obvious in hindsight and no snark on being corrected. I'd honestly forgotten the -19 nomenclature. So, I guess I was right to be in a panic about making my flight after all, based on the initial google result. (I don't know when the guidance changed, but the google result is still as I first saw it.)
watusername 5y ago
You might be confused, because the virus is _named_ 2019-nCoV. The page cannot have been from 2019 because global response didn't begin until early 2020. Edit: Ninja'd

dragonwriter 5y ago

> You need to look closely at this first hit to realize it dates from 2019 No, it doesn't. It couldn't, because there were no tests for COVID-19 in the US until Feb 2020, so the CDC could not possibly be recommending testing before domestic travel in 2019. (The 2019-ncov refers to the novel coronavirus identified in 2019, not the date of the article.) It may be outdated (the CDC has changed recommendations frequently), but it's not from 2019.

salgernon 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, both of you! (If not more by now.) Obvious in hindsight and no snark on being corrected. I'd honestly forgotten the -19 nomenclature. So, I guess I was right to be in a panic about making my flight after all, based on the initial google result. (I don't know when the guidance changed, but the google result is still as I first saw it.)

watusername 5y ago

You might be confused, because the virus is _named_ 2019-nCoV. The page cannot have been from 2019 because global response didn't begin until early 2020. Edit: Ninja'd