the head of the u.n. calling it a travel apartheid and questioning why there aren t travel restrictions for countries that have this variant and why the u.s. is just simply looking at these african countries? is what dr. anthony fauci had to say when asked about that. it was done at a time when we really were in the dark. we had no idea what was going on except this seemed to have been an explosion of cases of om icrn in south africa. the ban gives us time to figure out what is going on. as we get more and more information about cases in our country and worldwide, we re looking at that very carefully on a daily basis. hopefully, we ll be able to lift the ban within a reasonable amount of time. we all feel very badly about the hardship that that might have put upon not only south africa but the other african countries and for that reason in realtime, literally on a daily basis, we re reevaluating that policy. dr. fauci says this is a very