Why the CDC is inviting travelers from China to swab their noses at LAX

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Why the CDC is inviting travelers from China to swab their noses at LAX
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The CDC has a new plan to get a jump on new coronavirus variants — asking LAX passengers arriving from overseas to swab their noses for the sake of science.

Protesters in China are eager to see an easing of “zero-COVID” rules, but health experts warn that doing so could prompt a massive health emergency.

Even in the unlikely event that an international traveler is found to carry a new genetic variant, the CDC would be unable to use that volunteer’s sample to track him or her down. That is one of the reasons the program is not carried out by CDC employees, who maintain a presence at international airports to man “.” Instead, employees of XpresCheck await the arrival of specific flights and approach potential volunteers outside immigration and customs areas.

“We don’t want people to think this is a mandatory program,” said Ezra Ernst, president and chief executive of XpresTest Inc., which, with XpresSpa and XpresCheck, operates under the corporate banner ofClaire Altieri, seated, works with colleagues Ryan Kramer and Amy Schierhorn to set up a new coronavirus testing site at LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal. Workers began asking volunteers to provide samples on Tuesday.

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