One epidemiologist called President Trump's ban on most travel from Europe 'remarkably pointless' from a public health view — adding that closing borders only works in the very early days of an outbreak, or for countries that haven't detected any cases.
"If you bring in one or two additional people — once you've lost completely the ability to do any contact tracing — it won't make any difference," Balloux says. The U.S. is in that position now, he says, with far too many cases than it can possibly trace. Balloux calls the new travel restrictions — which are to go into full effect atTravel bans, border closures and burdensome quarantines of arriving foreigners have been staples of the COVID-19 pandemic.
South Korea and Japan slapped tit for tat restrictions on each other's citizens as the outbreak heated up in that part of Asia late in February. Later in the day, speaking to reporters at the White House, Fauci said the decision to block many European travelers wasn't taken lightly.
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