New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy added three more states to their travel restrictions list today, now requiring people traveling from 19 states to self-quarantine for 14 days if they want to visit the Empire or Garden states, CNBC reports.
The coronavirus outbreaks in Delaware, Kansas and Oklahoma are now bad enough for those states to make Cuomo and Murphy’s lists. The travel advisory applies to anyone arriving from a state that has a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a 7-day rolling average or a state with a 10% or higher positive rate over a 7-day rolling average.
Sixteen states were already subject to the travel advisory: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
“In order to responsibly continue down our road back to restart and recovery, we must remain vigilant in our collective effort to beat the virus and reduce the rate of transmission,” Murphy said in a press release. “I urge those arriving from one of these nineteen states to self-quarantine and get a COVID-19 test to prevent additional flareups across the state and ensure the health and safety of their fellow New Jerseyans.”
Cuomo also said in a statement, “New Yorkers did the impossible — we went from the worst infection rate in the United States to one of the best — and the last thing we need is to see another spike of COVID-19.” Read more at CNBC.
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Is it an enforceable law or just a friendly suggestion?
“Another spike”?! There were no clinical peer-reviewed studies proving that those who recovered from covid19 can get reinfected, even with antibodies count going down, since it is t-cells that matter, and there is no commercially available test to check covid19 t-cells response. Since the wast majority of the urban areas of New Jersey have had covid19 and recovered, there cannot be any significant state-wide spike. Idiot Murphy is using the “logic” as a Chelm melamed who would limit coming home to only once a year, so as to avoid having a newborn more than once a year. Can’t fix stupid.