NEWS: Americans returning from Europe will be funneled to 13 airports:

[Dennis Donovan]

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Jennifer Jacobs ✔@JenniferJJacobs

NEWS: Americans returning from Europe will be funneled to 13 airports:
-BOS, Boston
-MIA, Miami
-JFK, New York
-ORD, Chicago
-SFO, San Francisco
-SEA, Seattle
-HNL, Hawaii
-LAX, Los Angeles
-ATL, Atlanta
-IAD, DC/Virginia
-DFW, Texas
-DTW, Detroit

via @justinsink @josh_wingrove

2:13 PM - Mar 13, 2020

[In_The_Wind]

1. At least they'll be home.

[ret5hd]

2. i count 12.

[lame54]

5. Add the starting airport

[ret5hd]

9. What? Give me an example please.

[lame54]

10. Where they take off from Europe

[ret5hd]

12. That doesn't make any sense to include any random airport in the world...

to a list of x number of airports that everyone will be funneled TO.

[lame54]

13. I don't see how you are not getting this

[ret5hd]

15. OK...Lets try this:

Every one will be funneled TO 2 airports:
DFW

Does that make sense to you?

[lame54]

16. If they left from Heathrow - that's 2

[ret5hd]

17. And Heathrow isn't TO...it's FROM.

[lame54]

18. Now I'm lost

[lame54]

3. Are we trying to spread this shit around?

[wishstar]

4. So all those direct flights to smaller US airports will have to go to big airports first?

Another nightmare for travelers

[Dennis Donovan]

11. That's why I posted it - heads up for anyone with loved ones coming home

They might have to drive farther to pick them up.

[MissB]

6. Yep.

A coworker is trying to get her kid home from a European company. The kid is flying into Seattle for screening which is at least only a state away (few hours drive).

[bleedingulcers]

7. At which they will NOT be screened....

And will walk - unquestioned and unexamined - out of the airports and into the general population.

This is going well, isn't it?

[MissB]

8. My coworker mentioned they'll be screened

Which is why they are funneling them through specific airports.

Probably just questions and a temperature check.

[Midnightwalk]

14. Screening is kind of meaningless

Maybe there’s an argument that the new arrivals won’t change much nationally.

Screening for fever seems useless for an infection that remains asymptomatic for 2 weeks, but that’s just an uninformed opinion. Is that still the best estimate?

I don’t know what good questions you can ask. Were you in contact with other people for the past two weeks? I guess asking if you were in a hospital?

The only effective screening seems to be testing for the virus but that would involve delays and we don’t seem to have enough tests anyway.

The best thing to do is to give the details of what’s been worked out by experts and why. Communicating factual detail and explanations is one of the keys to managing this.