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pandemic borders project and global health policy at simon university. she joins me from british columbia. thank you for being here with us. you know, when the new variants come predictably, new travel restrictions, right? the south african countries which have been targeted by the latest bans, they ve been saying bans are ineffective. they re just bad science. here s a member of the coronavirus task force speaking to cnn earlier. the thing is to never have been imposed in the first place. we know that these bans have very little, if any, benefit. and i would have hoped by now that the u.s. would have reconsidered its position. because there s nothing to be gained. and then he goes on to say if you were to target the country where is omicron is spreading, you d basically have to ban travel from some 50 countries not just the ones from south african which the u.s. is

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