Collected Item: “Testing Positive and Using the ‘Backdoor’ to Get Into the U.S.”
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Testing Positive and Using the ‘Backdoor’ to Get Into the U.S.
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Text story
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This is a news story from the New York Times by Ceylan Yeginsu. This is about how people have been finding ways to bypass restrictions while traveling. Land crossings are a way some people are doing this, since land crossing does not require testing for entry into some countries. One way this could be done is doing the mandatory self-isolation period of five days, than choosing a different flight to a country like Mexico first, to then cross into the United States by land to avoid the ten day isolation required for testing positive for COVID. This article is quite interesting because it shows the ways in which COVID restrictions can be bypassed through loopholes within the framework. I have no idea the amount of people that actually do this, but at least a few have noticed ways to get out of restrictions.
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travel, restriction, isolation, bypass, loophole, CDC, ASU, HST580
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/travel/us-travel-covid-test.html
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Ceylan Yeginsu
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2022-05-28