The U.S. Is One Of A Handful Of Countries Still Making Legal Visitors Get A Covid Shot

The Biden administration announced last week that it will end the Covid-19 emergency declarations in May, but Republicans have a chance at terminating one outdated, unscientific lockdown-era restriction sooner with a House vote on Wednesday.

The United States is the Only Major Western countries still require international visitors to accept Covid-19 vaccines. Even countries with the most restrictive Covid lockdowns have relaxed their travel restrictions. Long ago.

These are the few remaining countries and far-flung islands territories still requiring International travellers must be vaccinated with Covid-19 Tokelau, Niue, Pitcairn, Tonga, Liberia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Palau, Nauru, Turkmenistan?, and Turks and Caicos (you can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of some of these places), and possibly a few others.

The House of Representatives will be examining a Wednesday issue. Bill Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky sponsored the legislation to repeal the requirement that visitors be vaccinated. Last week, the House voted to immediately end the requirement for visitor vaccinations. End The Covid-19 national emergency was first declared in March 2020. This would have had a significant impact on many other mandates from the Covid-era. However, the Senate is unlikely to approve the measure. However, the narrower legislation to allow travelers who haven’t taken genetic vaccines has a better chance of passing, as Democrats should not want to be seen as xenophobic and behind the rest of the world.

Stanford University, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Tweet To support the legislation: “There is no good reason, scientific or epidemiologic, to discriminate against the covid unvaccinated. The US is an international outlier in retaining this irrational policy.”

The United Kingdom Since March, unvaccinated travellers have been allowed to enter the country. AustriaCovid vax was not required for travel in a country like, which has some of the most restrictive Covid policies Europe has. Most These requirements had been dropped by Europe by the end of last summer.

New Zealand, known for its brutal lockdown is a renowned country. Lifted All Covid-19 requirements for international tourists in September Canada These were dropped in October.

Jacinda Adern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, explained that New Zealand had stopped mandating government vaccines. This was because there were very few Covid cases and fewer hospitalizations. There was also widespread vaccination and access for anti-viral drugs. “time to safely turn the page on our COVID-19 management.” She also mentioned that the country’s opening would benefit it. “drive greater economic activity critical to our economic recovery.”

Current Policy

It’s hard to see why the U.S. policy still stands. We know the vaccine is safe. doesn’t appear to reduce transmission, and certainly doesn’t do so 100 percent of the time, as the public was Initial message.

Three quarters of American adults have accepted genetic vaccines. This means that anyone who needs it can get it. Natural immunity is Better Vaccination is more effective than vaccination. It’s also almost three years since Covid broke out — the virus spread all around the world and created herd immunity long ago.

It is also widely spread within the U.S. borders, among 334 million people. In fact, President Biden declared back in September that the pandemic had ended. “is over.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, is not. Continue to its policy: “If you are a non-U.S. citizen who is a nonimmigrant (not a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or traveling to the United States on an immigrant visa), you will need to show