Lordy!
Throngs of travelers arriving back in the US are jam-packed in airports after Trump's coronavirus travel ban
Passengers and news outlets tweeted out images of massive crowds at major US airports not long after President Donald Trump's travel ban amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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- Throngs of passengers crowded major US airports Saturday evening after the onset of President Donald Trump's travel restrictions on people arriving from Europe amid a coronavirus pandemic.
- Travelers and media outlets shared photos and videos of packed terminals at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Washington-Dulles in Virginia, and Dallas/Fort Worth airport in Texas.
- Public health experts were astonished at the scenes, noting that the dense crowds presented the perfect opportunity for coronavirus transmission.
- Local officials appeared furious, with Illinois' governor tweeted that "the federal government needs to get its s@#t together. NOW."
- Massive lines of travelers crowded into US airports Saturday evening, not long after President Donald Trump issued coronavirus-related travel restrictions on passengers arriving from Europe.
News outlets and passengers shared photos and videos of packed airport terminals at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Washington-Dulles in Virginia, and Dallas/Fort Worth airport in Texas as travelers awaited customs screening.
Public health experts bemoaned the scenes, noting that the dense crowds presented a perfect opportunity for coronavirus transmission.
"Good God. You could hardly invent a better scenario for superspreading events,"
tweeted Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. "Any cases of COVID in these crowds will have a far higher chance of spreading to others in these lines than if they were just allowed in unchecked."
Another expert, biology professor Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington,
tweeted that the crowds were "a perfect storm for creating massive case clusters."
https://www.insider.com/crowds-travelers-pack-us-airports-trump-coronavirus-travel-ban-2020-3
I am afraid to travel. I didnt think Trump could mess up travel worse than Bush. I have to travel in April. I pray this is not my fate. I would literally cry.