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U.S. airport nasal swabbing expanding to Chicago and Miam
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| 13 March A.D. 2024
| Mike Stobbe
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cdc; covid; covid1984; electionvariant; flu; infection; nasalswab
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Here we go again.
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:30:22 PM PDT
by
lightman
To: lightman
C ommunist
O rignated
V ote
I ntegrity
D estroyer
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:30:30 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: lightman
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:32:17 PM PDT
by
xoxox
To: lightman
Meanwhile at the border..........
4
posted on
03/13/2024 1:34:13 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: rktman
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:35:31 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
To: lightman
Airports have become the (control freak’s) testing ground
of choice.
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:36:20 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
To: lightman
A: “Up YOUR nose with a rubber hose”
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:36:37 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: lightman
When’s the anal swabbing start?
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:37:27 PM PDT
by
fretzer
To: xoxox
I
Cigars, cigarettes, anal swabs?
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:37:41 PM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: lightman
[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.]
Well, I guess one more time for today (plus a follow-up post)
Meanwhile, way back in 2020:
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:39:55 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: lightman
To: rktman
What? You do t think the 370,000 illegals that Biden flew around the country got tested?
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:41:32 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: lightman
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:42:37 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Does this tagline make my brain look smaller? Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Русские свиньи, идите домой! Derp)
To: fretzer
they did that at the American Embassy in China, I believe until the diplos complained ( which surprises me still that they did not enjoy it)
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:43:14 PM PDT
by
ronniesgal
(have you even tried to mind your own business?)
To: rktman
[Meanwhile at the border..........]
Oh, we can’t talk about THAT...
We ain’t got money for THAT...
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:44:46 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: lightman
[a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.]
And now for my canned posting - Covid-19
(84) was a dry run, even if by accident, for the Mark of the Beast
THE FOLLOWING IS SOMETHING SAVED FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS Global.........basically,
UPON THE ENTIRE WORLD (for all intents and purposes)
Covid-19
(84) ---> Covid-19
(84) is not the Mark of the Beast.
(I'm just saying that for the thread)
BUT:
The parallels are downright eerie.
A clear warning of things to come.
Covid-19 came as a snare. Now it's not THE snare.
But still, it came as a snare.
UPON THE ENTIRE WORLD.
A snare that came upon the entire world and institutionalized GLOBAL TYRANNY almost overnight.
Determining if you can travel, BUY and in some cases SELL.
Or if you can even work a job.
Tyranny upon tyranny.
The parallels are just too eerie and too spot-on.
This is a very clear foreshadowing of Revelation chapter 13 and the sheep are blind to it.
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:45:48 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: lightman
he nation's top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
Not the illegal aliens who march over the open borders, though. Just the folks who come here legally. Our government is a joke.
To: lightman
I lost 35% of the hearing in my left ear, and 15% in my right ear, from a nasal swab.
It burned for about 15 minutes, then made my ear canals congested.
Do not consent to nasal swabs if you value your hearing.
To: lightman
China was using anal swabs on foreign travelers. I expect it to be coming to America in the near future.
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:50:57 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(I may not know as much american history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
To: lightman
Preparing for another lockdown horror that will provide a screen for them to steal the election? like they did in 2020?
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posted on
03/13/2024 1:54:08 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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