DHS: ATL among 5 airports to receive passengers from Ebola-affected countries

[B2G]

What difference is this going to make?

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Posted: Oct 21, 2014 12:03 PM EDT
Updated: Oct 21, 2014 12:20 PM EDT
By Vanzetta [email protected] @cbs46

BREAKINGDHS: All passengers from Ebola affected countries to fly through 1 of 5 airports, including ATLMore >ATLANTA (CBS46) - The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that all people flying from three Ebola-affected nations must fly through one of five American airports. One of the airports being Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

DHS says this move is to help prevent the spread of the deadly virus in the United States.

Passengers flying from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea will undergo additional health screenings and protective measures that were put into place at the five airports last week. The five airports are JFK, Newark, Dulles, Atlanta and O'Hare.


This new mandate will go into effect Wednesday.

There are currently no direct flights from the affected nations into any airport in the United States.

http://www.cbs46.com/story/26841911/dhs-all-passengers-from-ebola-affected-countries-to-fly-through-1-of-5-aiports-including-atl

[kestrel91316]

1. Good move. That way only a few teams of trained personnel are needed, and they can get

real good at this.

[B2G]

2. Real good at what?

95% of the traffic already comes through these airports.

How will that identify asymptomtic people?

[kestrel91316]

3. The screeners at the 5 US airports.

Are you not aware of the new screening process?? REALLY????

It's not rocket science, mind you, but it is a NEW THING.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. For the last few weeks we've been told it would be impossible to discern nation of origin.

[MineralMan]

7. What value? It will direct all people who board

planes in one of the ebola-impacted countries to facilities which have the most enhanced screening systems. That will put more skilled people in charge of screening such passengers.

Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's much better to limit arrivals for passengers originating in those countries to a limited number of airports, each of which has enhanced screening than to send them wherever they can get a flight from Brussels, the initial landing spot for most of the flights. You can fly to many cities in the US from Brussels.

Sounds like an excellent plan to me, and avoids a total shutdown of travel from those countries.