u.s. surgeon general vivek murthy. he was interviewed earlier today. and over the past couple of days he s been talking about these new travel policies and all things covid-19. and he was asked why only we re seeing these restrictions for international travelers and why not include domestic travelers. because we already know that the omicron variant is here in the u.s. and has been for some time. and this was his response. the international and domestic travel are in fact different, and the international front, as you mentioned, there are a number of measures we have taken like vaccine requirements requiring testing before people get on those flights. from a domestic standpoint, what we have seen is that if people do in fact wear masks, well-fitted masks, good quality masks, they can significantly reduce their risk on domestic flights. and finally just keep in mind this. we have taken a number of measures domestically to ensure that we increase vaccination rates, which is ultimately
welcome back. the biden administration announced this week their plan to tackle covid this week. try to bring you back, dr. tyson belle. sorry for the technical problem. assistant professor of medicine at the university of virginia. can you hear me now? i can hear you just fine tlmplts we go. what s your thoughts about the biden winter plan talking negative tests for international travelers a day before arriving into the u.s. and increasing vaccination rates among adults in the u.s. just to name a few? does this go far enough, in your view? i think this is a really good step. i think we really need to buff up our travel policies, because we don t want to ban people to countries but keep cases out. budging up testing and having
of what? business probably take longer. because of what? business travel - probably take longer. because of what? business travel has l of what? business travel has been slower of what? business travel has been slower to of what? business travel has been slower to recover - of what? business travel has been slower to recover from | of what? business travel has i been slower to recover from the pandemic but what has recovered a small business travel. people going to visit a customer tried to make a sale in their state or nearby state. big companies are still not travelling anywhere near the numbers they did before the pandemic. when you try to extrapolate that to the international setting i don t think too many small businesses in the uk or continental europe are going to want to make business trips to the united states, you re talking about big corporations and they are not ready to travel. they ve got complicated travel. they ve got complicated travel policies to make sure their