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[Nevilledog]

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Oliver Darcy
@oliverdarcy
yikes

Dr. Drew
@drdrew
These vaccine passports segregate people and strip them of their freedom to travel internationally. Vaccinations are important, and I encourage everyone to get the Covid vaccine, but how would you feel if international travel also required other vaccinations?
10:43 AM · Apr 5, 2021

[Siwsan]

1. Apparently Dr. Drew doesn't do much international travel

[lark]

2. Dr. Drew sure does not seem to know much about medicine and travel.

There are many countries that require certain vaccinations before you are allowed to travel there - everyone knows that but he's a physician and doesn't know? How incredibly ignorant is he, or is he just another trumpist liar?

[soothsayer]

3. Oh my

[leftieNanner]

4. We went to Africa a few years ago

Don't talk to me about vaccines required for travel.

Keep yourself and your fellow travelers safe.

It was worth every poke!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. I haven't travelled internationally since I was quite young (sadly) but I seem to recall

that certain vaccines were actually required for travel to certain places.

[MontanaMama]

6. Guess we can add "Dr." Drew to the quack list...

Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and now bozo Dr. Drew.

[Claire Oh Nette]

12. maybe lack of last name is a nint...

add Dr. Laura to that mix...

[MontanaMama]

14. Good one.

Yes. "Dr." Laura is on the quack list too.

[Crunchy Frog]

17. He's been there a long time.

[dchill]

7. Dr Drew needs to be stripped of his Dr Drewness.

[sop]

8. "segregate people and strip them of their freedom to travel internationally."

Let me think...who did that four years ago based only on religious grounds?

[madaboutharry]

9. I thought it was common knowledge that vaccinations are required

for travel to certain geographic locals.

[mopinko]

10. there are docs that specialize in just this.

went to india about 10 yrs ago, and had to go to a special practice that did only that.

[Claire Oh Nette]

11. They do...

Pretty sure some countries do require vaccines. "American" is not a virus shield.

My parents lived in Monrovia, Liberia in the early 60s. My Mom kept copious records of the vaccines she and my dad got. When my dad was to be transferred to Caracas in 1968, my mom insisted my younger brother, not old enough for the smallpox vax, get it, because she "wasn't taking any of her babies overseas without their shots."

[FSogol]

13. My whole family had to get yellow fever vaccinations to travel to South America.

If you don't have the WHO card showing your shot, you have 2 choices.

1. Get the shot right there in the airport.
2. Get back on the plane and go back to where you came from.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

15. So I just checked, and the USA itself doesn't 'require' any vaccines for international travel

There is one that is globally required which the US enforces, and that is the Yellow Fever vaccine, required when travelling to certain areas in Africa.

Other vaccines are 'recommended' by the US government, and also may be required by the governments of the countries being travelled to.

It's not wrong to say no vaccines are required just to get on a plane in order to go anywhere outside the US in general, i.e. requirements are always location specific.

So if the US were to say 'you must have covid vaccine to the leave the US by plane', this actually would be an entirely new thing.

I don't know if that's what's being discussed exactly but I am guessing yes?

[Indykatie]

16. International Travel DOES Require Other Vaccinations

Travel Medicine is a thing or at least it is for some corporate travels. My former Employer had to comply with required testing and vaccinations to travel abroad. I assumed this was standard operating procedure and not just my company's rules.

[MuseRider]

18. I would feel....FINE

you fucking moron. If you are really a doctor you are the worst kind of all, one who does not believe in what they are doing they just do it for money or fame or both.

[NQAS]

19. Clearly dr. Drew hasn't ever traveled outside the us

Vaccinations are required for many places, and many diseases. It’s part of the ritual of international travel. What a fucking moron.