Posted on 03/13/2024 1:30:22 PM PDT by lightman
he nation's top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program asks arriving international passengers to volunteer to have their noses swabbed and answer questions about their travel. The program operates at six airports and on Tuesday, the CDC said it was adding two more — Chicago's O'Hare and Miami.
Those locations should provide more information about respiratory infections coming out of South America, Africa and Asia, particularly, CDC officials said.
"Miami and Chicago enable us to collect samples coming from areas of the world where global surveillance is not as strong as it used to be," said the CDC's Allison Taylor Walker. "What we really need is a good view of what's happening in the world so we're prepared for the next thing."
The program began in 2021, and has been credited with detecting coronavirus variants faster than other systems. The genomic testing of traveler's nasal swabs has mainly been focused on COVID-19, but testing also is being done for two other respiratory viruses — flu and RSV.
Participants are not notified of their results. But they are given a COVID-19 home test kit to take with them, CDC officials say.
Samples have come from more than 475,000 air travelers coming off flights from more than 135 countries, officials said.
Health officials also have been sampling wastewater that comes off international flights at a few airports. That testing is for COVID-19, but CDC officials are evaluating the possibility of monitoring wastewater for other things, Walker said.
The CDC program has a current budget of about $37 million. The agency pays two companies, Ginkgo Bioworks and XWell, to do sample collection and testing. The companies are working with CDC to grow the program to check for more than 30 different disease-causing germs.
lol. We might have to check with “Pistol” Pete Buttigieg on that one. He is after all The United States Secretary of Transportation. I’m sure Pete can get to “the bottom” of the situation.
Very clever!
It’s a good thing all those “Newcomers” aka “Undocumented Migrants” aka illegal aliens are being screened for Covid, TB, Measles and any other diseases that have been eradicated but will now experience a comeback.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Thanks. Citizen reporter health/life BUMP!
I’m just glad they swab all the illegals crossing the border.
“The companies are working with CDC to grow the program to check for more than 30 different disease-causing germs.”
Cha ching. 💰💸
BTTT!!!
Yep. First case of Disease X and The White Hospice will try to shut it all down again. Then it's on like Donkey Kong.
MORE DNA DATA
A long time ago. Known as BOHICA
LOL! Probably using the swabs to produce new variants.
What happens if you refuse to let them swab you? The article doesn't say. They probably put you on a no fly list. Thankfully, I'll never have to get on a plane ever again in my life.
Do these swabs collect the person’s DNA also?
RE: When’s the anal swabbing start?
About the same time all of the agents quit.
“I didn’t sign up for this. Did you see that’s Stacey Abrams third in line?”
This is the preliminary propaganda for when the Deep State declares the new Election Year Covid variant so it can steal another election with fraudulent mail in ballots. It is transparent.
Don’t black people to a certain extent believe the authorities want to build up dna databases of blacks to use later? Some cities have demanded purging of the past dna case ones rather than keep them just in case for future incidents.
This could enrage people. “Just for Covid” or suspicion?
What could go wrong?
The number 666 is mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, specifically in Revelation 13:18. This verse reads: “This calls for wisdom: let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.”
The meaning of 666 has been the subject of much speculation and interpretation over the centuries. In ancient times, numerology, the practice of assigning numerical value to letters (known as gematria in Hebrew), was common. Some scholars have suggested that 666 is a code that, when applied to a particular numerical system, refers to a specific individual’s name. The most famous theory is that 666 refers to the Roman Emperor Nero, whose name can add up to 666 when transcribed into Hebrew.
Yes, somehow, it will make complete sense at that time.
Except to those who are lost and will take the Mark of the Beast.
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