Airport medical screenings designed to keep coronavirus-stricken travelers from South Korea and Italy out of the U.S. in early March resulted in 69 people being turned away, a House investigation found.
Airport medical screenings designed to keep coronavirus-stricken travelers from South Korea and Italy out of the United States in early March resulted in only 69 people being turned away, a House investigation found.
The probe by the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy found the U.S. effectively outsourced the screenings to South Korea and Italy and resulted in"another opportunity the administration missed to limit the impact of coronavirus,” said committee chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.involving the two countries on Feb. 29th, as both were dealing with escalating coronavirus cases.
The House investigation found that between March 3rd and March 13th, just 13 passengers were barred from Italy and 56 were barred from South Korea. It also found that the officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not know how the screenings in Italy were being conducted and had no personnel overseeing the screenings. Passengers from both countries were not screened when they arrived in the U.S., the report found.
Krishnamoorthi said the findings show the government"disregarded valuable opportunities to slow the spread through enhanced entry screenings."In Illinois, Latinos have highest cases of coronavirus, officials worry about a spike in deaths Norwegian Hospital nurses perform one of the first half dozen coronavirus tests on site in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood on April 28, 2020.Latinos are testing positive to coronavirus at higher rates than any other demographic group in Illinois, alarming officials and experts who say that if the number of COVID-19 cases"Of the more than 28,200 Latinos who have been tested for coronavirus, at least 17,240 have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
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