Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.
The 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been in a state of flux since Kennedy took over. Its first meeting this year had been delayed when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services abruptly postponed its February meeting.
It doesn’t really work like that.
To visit Australia a bunch of vaccinations are mandatory regardless of where you’re from.
For some specific locations you need additional vaccinations or certifications, like yellow fever prone areas.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some additional requirements are applied to Americans with everything going on.
The end result is the same though; if the bar is set to “be vaccinated against a minimal set of preventable disease”, and either people are happy to not be, or worse, because there’s always a worst option, we start seeing more cases of people falsely claiming to be vaccinated while they’re not, other countries might start tightening the grip.
…how would we know that some vaccination certificates are bogus? I have no doubt that some people would be bright enough to travel while having measles or whatever. It already happened, and increasing the amount of people in this situation is unlikely to heighten their awareness of it :(
yeah.
It’s possible to test for antibodies.
I can’t imagine doing that at immigration, but imposing it as a requirement for a visa is plausible.
We already do things like ensuring that translations are performed by licensed translators, so you could have vaccination certification performed by doctors that are approved to provide it. Not perfect but probably an adequate measure.