'Do not travel': CDC, State Department raise UK travel alert after spike in COVID cases
Source: USA Today
U.S. citizens should avoid travel to the United Kingdom because of a spike in coronavirus cases, two government agencies said Monday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. State Department each raised the alert levels for the region to their highest levels.
The CDC raised the travel advisory for the U.K. to a level 4, meaning "avoid travel,'' citing "very high'' levels of coronavirus cases. The alert had been at level 3, which advised travelers to be fully vaccinated before travel to the U.K. and recommended that unvaccinated travelers avoid nonessential travel. The U.K. travel alert has been at level 3 since May.
"Because of the current situation in the United Kingdom, even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants,'' the CDC said in its update.
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will not cancel, and will stop paying attention to CDC because of a strategy that was footloose and fancy free, without any recommendations for common sense mitigation steps in certain situations, EVEN WHEN vaccinated.
I.e., it's too late for this part -
(maybe this is their first attempt at a "walk back" )
Good thing I wasn't drinking when I read this - literally laughed out loud! 
