CDC Recommends COVID Testing Before All Domestic Flights, Including Vaccinated Persons.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all domestic travelers, regardless of immunization status, have COVID-19 testing before and after their trip. Anyone traveling within the United States should consider “being tested as near to the time of departure as feasible,” and no more than three days before a trip, according to an update on the agency’s website. Previously, it only suggested testing for patients who had not gotten COVID-19 immunizations or had not had their booster injections in a long time. People who went to crowded places “while not wearing a well-fitting mask or respirator” should take a test before or after their excursion, according to the CDC report. A federal court in Florida overturned the CDC’s requirement that passengers wear masks inside airports or on aircraft in April. Officials from the Justice Department have indicated…

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