It’s a disgrace, and we cannot let him succeed. This new “African Ban,” is designed to make it harder for black and brown people to immigrate to the United States. in the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban. But the policy Biden was addressing had nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic or public health measures. The Biden tweet from last year (below) was posted the day after then-President Donald Trump had signed a policy restricting travel from China in an effort to slow the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. For example, the Republican Party of Portage County, Ohio, posted the tweet on Facebook with this misleading claim, “And yet he imposes the same travel ban. They called Biden a “hypocrite,” highlighting a tweet from Feb. Within a day of Biden’s announcement, conservative social media pages had taken aim at the president, but they leveled a criticism that was based on a misrepresentation of a past position Biden had taken on Trump’s immigration policies.
The omicron variant has already started to spread and has now been detected in more than a dozen countries, including the U.S. The eight countries affected are Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.īiden called the move, which was intended to slow the spread of the variant to the U.S., a “ precautionary measure until we have more information.” However, travel restrictions are most effective if they are implemented before a virus, or variant, has begun to spread. On the same day, President Joe Biden issued a policy restricting travel from southern Africa, where scientists first identified the variant. The World Health Organization designated the omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 as a variant of concern on Nov. The CDC, for example, “expects that anyone with Omicron infection, regardless of vaccination status or whether or not they have symptoms, can spread the virus to others.” Although vaccination reduces the risk of viral transmission, it doesn’t eliminate it - which may be especially true with the highly transmissible omicron variant. People who are infected with the coronavirus but don’t have symptoms can still spread the virus.
While it is possible for someone to be infected by touching a contaminated surface, the agency says the risk “is generally considered to be low.”
“Prolonged exposure to these conditions, typically more than 15 minutes,” the CDC says, raises the risk of such spread. Such airborne transmissions have occurred in enclosed spaces without adequate ventilation and have often involved exercising, shouting or singing by an infected person. As a result, risk is thought to be highest when people are in close contact with one another, typically within 6 feet or so of an infected person, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Įspecially in places with poor ventilation, however, SARS-CoV-2 can be spread through small respiratory particles that linger in the air and can reach those who are further than 6 feet away. Most often, transmission occurs when such droplets or particles are breathed in or land in or on a person’s eyes, nose or mouth. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is spread from person to person through respiratory droplets or particles when infected people cough, sneeze, talk or breathe.
0 kommentar(er)
