Starting next Thursday, the CDC said that anyone looking to fly from China to the U.S. will have to show a negative COVID test.
However Chin-Hong points out that there are key differences between how China and the U.S. handled the virus, noting there are three key differences that put us in a better position to handle any new variant.
The CDC has said it's making the change because China notoriously lacks transparency when it comes to medical records, making it harder to analyze and track the mutating virus. “Right now we’re not getting a lot of information as to variants, what kind of COVID is coming from that part of the world,” said Chin-Hong.
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