Azar on Jan 31: In accordance with the declaration, beginning at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time; Sunday, February the 2nd, the United States government will implement temporary measures to increase our abilities to detect and contain the coronavirus proactively and aggressively. Any U.S. citizen returning to the United States who has been in Hubei Province in the previous 14 days will be subject to up to 14 days of mandatory quarantine to ensure they are they are provided proper medical care and health screening.vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 12:59 pm
The travel bans made things worse! I guess they did not take effect immediately? Therefore, there was a rush of
those coming from China to the West Coast and there was no effective testing of these incoming people. He pointed out that there was a large spike in this transfer of people in March.
This also included Chinese being barred.
So people had 3 days to decide to come over before the ban if they could. So not immediate, but not a huge amount of time either.
But also (from a July article): The U.S. restrictions that took effect Feb. 2 continued to allow travel to the U.S. from China’s Hong Kong and Macao territories over the past five months. The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign nationals based in those territories entered the U.S. in the first three months after the travel restrictions were imposed.
Additionally, more than 27,000 Americans returned from mainland China in the first month after the restrictions took effect. U.S. officials lost track of more than 1,600 of them who were supposed to be monitored for virus exposure.
Was it helpful, probably. Was it 100% and immediate? No way.
, here's yet another article questioning the unquestionable benefits of lockdowns:
