International [U.S COVID Vaccine News] CDC to Lift COVID-19 Testing Requirement for international Travelers

[Hadron90]

They aren't counting most deaths as COVID deaths because they didn't confirm them in the first place.


India's cumulative tests per capita stand at worse than 1/6th the penetration of the USA's. They aren't nearly as equipped to track their own deaths, similar to African or Middle Eastern nations which have underreported their deaths at various stages, if not throughout the pandemic, because of a less robust healthcare system. They are similarly less prepared to deal with a surge of infections. That's when the deaths are officially counted at all:


This is also happening post-vaccine, and while the rest of the world is on a downturn...because they aren't locking down. Disregarding lockdown results in disaster. Look at Sweden. This is a nation that is equipped to count. Their rate of confirmed cases per capita just barely missed matching our own. Presently, they are reporting 4x as many as we are.

Cumulatively, their deaths per capita are 10x their neighbors (Finland and Denmark). Why? They didn't lockdown.

I will accept more deaths to avoid lockdowns.

 

[Madmick]

I will accept more deaths to avoid lockdowns.

I won't, and I also support the government imprisoning those who refuse to accede to them.

Because the data is clear. People who espouse your point of view are getting people killed-- literally killed. Not an exaggeration. This is life and death.

 

[Hadron90]

I won't, and I also support the government imprisoning those who refuse to accede to them.

Because the data is clear. People who espouse your point of view are getting people killed-- literally killed. Not an exaggeration. This is life and death.

Flu season is coming in a few months. Better weld your door shut. You wouldn't someone to get literally killed because you gave them the flu.

 

[Nameless Ghoul]

Tyrant.

It's interesting to read the responses from those "fully vaccinated", stating that they are still going to wear masks, and distancing themselves because they don't trust others not wearing masks to "really" be vaccinated. <45>

 

[Arkain2K]

CDC: Fully Vaccinated People Can Stop Wearing Masks Indoors And Outdoors
By Laurel Wansley | May 13, 2021
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that fully vaccinated adults can safely resume activities indoors or outdoors without masks or distancing, in gatherings large or small. The announcement marks a major milestone in the effort to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced the new guidance Thursday.

"You can do things you stopped doing because of the pandemic," Walensky said.

The new policy is based on recent real-world studies from Israel and the U.S. on people who've been vaccinated, she said.

In response to a question, Walensky said the federal mask requirement on public transportation remains in force for everyone, vaccinated or not – including on buses, trains, airplanes and in stations and airports.

"For travel, we are still asking people to continue wearing their masks," Walensky said. She said the policy continues to be under review.

However, under the new guidance fully vaccinated people can resume domestic travel without needing to get tested before or after, and they do not need to self-quarantine. They also do not need to quarantine following a known exposure so long as they are asymptomatic.


The CDC says masks may still be required by state, local, tribal or territorial laws as well as businesses and workplaces. But some local jurisdictions swiftly announced they would update their own regulations to conform with the CDC guidance, and more are expected to follow.

The updated guidance for fully vaccinated people does not apply to health care settings, which have their own separate guidance.

Unvaccinated people "remain at risk" of illness and death, Walensky said, and should remain masked and observe physical distancing.

Speaking in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday afternoon, President Biden said, "Today is a great day for America and our long battle with coronavirus." The president and Vice President Harris both smiled widely and did not wear masks.

"I think it's a great milestone, a great day," Biden said. "It's been made possible by the extraordinary success we've had in vaccinating so many Americans so quickly."

He praised the American people for how much they had endured since the beginning of the pandemic, including lost jobs and missed life events, and particularly the more than 580,000 lives lost to COVID-19.

Biden emphasized that the new rules only apply to those who are fully vaccinated. People are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or two weeks after the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson shot.


Those not fully vaccinated should still wear a mask, the CDC said.

"We've gotten this far. Please protect yourself until you get to the finish line," Biden said. "Get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do."

In an interview Thursday with NPR's All Things Considered, Walensky said the new mask guidance was possible due to the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccines, the drop in U.S. cases and universal vaccine availability in the U.S. for people age 12 and older.

Walensky noted that the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnston vaccines are all 100% effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, even if they don't prevent 100% of coronavirus infections. They are also effective against the coronavirus variants circulating in the U.S., she said.

The CDC director said it would be safe for a fully vaccinated person to go into a grocery store, even if there were unvaccinated, unmasked shoppers there.

Walensky noted that the guidance will take some getting used to for many people.

"We have been doing this for 15 months at this point and not everybody's going to want to shed their masks immediately," she said. "It's going to take us a little bit of time to readjust."

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9965...p-wearing-masks-indoors-and-outdoors-cdc-says

 

[Arkain2K]

With hospitalization plummeted in the U.S as vaccination progress continues, the CDC announced today that fully-vaccinated Americans no longer needs to to wear a face mask anymore in most places, indoor and outdoor:



Fully-Immunized Americans greets the CDC’s new announcement with excitement:





Dr. Teresa Murray Amato, chair of emergency medicine for Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, joined CBSN's Tanya Rivero with more on this big change in the guidelines:

 

[Arkain2K]

Canada's Jackson Proskow takes a look at the new CDC guidelines and what's being done in Canada to do the same:

 

[Staph infection]

I won't, and I also support the government imprisoning those who refuse to accede to them.

Because the data is clear. People who espouse your point of view are getting people killed-- literally killed. Not an exaggeration. This is life and death.

If you are vaccinated you have nothing to fear from an unvaccinated person. People should have a right to choose what they do or don’t do with their body.

 

[Arkain2K]

If you are vaccinated you have nothing to fear from an unvaccinated person.

This is not a rhetorical question: where do you think all these new mutated variants are coming from? In a lab somewhere or thrived and evolved among the unvaccinated population?

 

[MeatheadMike]

That’s great news and all, but obviously the unvaccinated are just going to stop wearing masks too since there’s no simple way to enforce otherwise.

 

[Madmick]

Flu season is coming in a few months. Better weld your door shut. You wouldn't someone to get literally killed because you gave them the flu.

I see you still haven't learned humility over your "Just the Flu" bro facepalming last year. Flu season without lockdown will kill fewer than 1/10th as many people as COVID with lockdown. All we have to do is achieve a herd immunity with vaccines, and then we can end lockdowns completely.

You know what's ironic? The diehard braindead libertarians, the ones who give libertarianism a bad name, are the ones who insist it's tyranny to mandate vaccines. They insist this is because of the several cases out of million people where a person experiences a severe reaction to a vaccine, and dies. They howl, "I should have the right what risk I expose my family to." Yet these same people don't bat an eye on insisting they be allowed to impose their presence on others without a mask, and without a vaccination, resulting in thousands more deaths per millions versus responsible behaviors, or versus the miniscule risk to their family from the administration of vaccines. The people they expose, people working necessary jobs, or people traversing a public space who did mask up and vaccinate themselves, are denied the choice to avoid this dangerous exposure.

So, really, these jackasses only believe in "muh freedom" when that means their freedom to selfishly do whatever they want, however deadly, while everyone else is forced to inherit the risk of their choices. That's real tyranny.

 

[ineverpost]

I see you still haven't learned humility over your "Just the Flu" bro facepalming last year. Flu season without lockdown will kill fewer than 1/10th as many people as COVID with lockdown. All we have to do is achieve a herd immunity with vaccines, and then we can end lockdowns completely.

You know what's ironic? The diehard braindead libertarians, the ones who give libertarianism a bad name, are the ones who insist it's tyranny to mandate vaccines. They insist this is because of the several cases out of million people where a person experiences a severe reaction to a vaccine, and dies. They howl, "I should have the right what risk I expose my family to." Yet these same people don't bat an eye on insisting they be allowed to impose their presence on others without a mask, and without a vaccination, resulting in thousands more deaths per millions versus responsible behaviors, or versus the miniscule risk to their family from the administration of vaccines. The people they expose, people working necessary jobs, or people traversing a public space who did mask up and vaccinate themselves, are denied the choice to avoid this dangerous exposure.

So, really, these jackasses only believe in "muh freedom" when that means their freedom to selfishly do whatever they want, however deadly, while everyone else is forced to inherit the risk of their choices. That's real tyranny.

There's no fucking way a vaccine should ever be legally mandated and I say that as a vaccinated person. There is undoubtedly corruption involved with portions of this vaccine rollout given all the money involved. There absolutely are people suffering catastrophic injury as a result of the vaccines, albeit at a much lower rate than Covid-19. The drug companies do not care. They want full FDA approval so they can secure as many non refundable orders as possible. Covid-19 vaccines will be almost obsolete this same time next year. Covid-19 is a slow replicating virus that causes nearly all its damage by turning people's immune systems into suicide bombers. There will be antivirals on par with the flu or even better next year, and only the most vulnerable people will continue to get vaccinated. You can take that to the bank.

 

[DavidsGhost]

If these vaccines work as has been reported from like 10 different real world studies, then I know we can get the country to 70 percent and then really be done

 

[DavidsGhost]

There's no fucking way a vaccine should ever be legally mandated and I say that as a vaccinated person. There is undoubtedly corruption involved with portions of this vaccine rollout given all the money involved. There absolutely are people suffering catastrophic injury as a result of the vaccines, albeit at a much lower rate than Covid-19. The drug companies do not care. They want full FDA approval so they can secure as many non refundable orders as possible. Covid-19 vaccines will be almost obsolete this same time next year. Covid-19 is a slow replicating virus that causes nearly all its damage by turning people's immune systems into suicide bombers. There will be antivirals on par with the flu or even better next year, and only the most vulnerable people will continue to get vaccinated. You can take that to the bank.

Shots are already legally mandated in public schools

 

[ineverpost]

Shots are already legally mandated in public schools

tax payers going to get bent over hard with all the lawsuits. Will make police brutality lawsuits looks like nothing

 

[DavidsGhost]

tax payers going to get bent over hard with all the lawsuits. Will make police brutality lawsuits looks like nothing

I mean shots have been mandated legally for decades in schools.

 

[Madmick]

There's no fucking way a vaccine should ever be legally mandated and I say that as a vaccinated person. There is undoubtedly corruption involved with portions of this vaccine rollout given all the money involved. There absolutely are people suffering catastrophic injury as a result of the vaccines, albeit at a much lower rate than Covid-19. The drug companies do not care. They want full FDA approval so they can secure as many non refundable orders as possible. Covid-19 vaccines will be almost obsolete this same time next year. Covid-19 is a slow replicating virus that causes nearly all its damage by turning people's immune systems into suicide bombers. There will be antivirals on par with the flu or even better next year, and only the most vulnerable people will continue to get vaccinated. You can take that to the bank.

A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.

 

[terrapin]

If you are vaccinated you have nothing to fear from an unvaccinated person. People should have a right to choose what they do or don’t do with their body.

damn you guys are incurably stupid aren't you? i think you should all be shipped off to stupid superspreader island so you cant be a danger to others. i support covid passports just so people with such low intelligence can be prevented from harming the many children and adults with allergies who cannot be vaccinated.

 

[terrapin]

If these vaccines work as has been reported from like 10 different real world studies, then I know we can get the country to 70 percent and then really be done

only stupidity and gullibility stand in the way now man.

 

[terrapin]

I won't, and I also support the government imprisoning those who refuse to accede to them.

Because the data is clear. People who espouse your point of view are getting people killed-- literally killed. Not an exaggeration. This is life and death.

keep up the good work here.