Last month, when the Biden administration announced plans to reopen the United States to fully vaccinated international travelers, the White House and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was surprisingly short on details of how the new system would work.
Several weeks later and we still have few details about the new arrangements and even Britain’s transport minister Grant Shapps had to embarrassingly admit that U.S. officials hadn’t yet told him when the new rules would come into force.
The CDC continues to work on many of the details of President Biden’s hastily announced reopening plans and that’s left many people wondering if they could still be barred from entering the United States when the borders are reopened.
The biggest unanswered question is what vaccines will the United States accept? If the CDC were only to recognise vaccines approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), that would restrict the list to just three vaccines that aren’t even in widespread use in many countries.
Thankfully, we now have an answer to that question. Late on Friday, the CDC confirmed that it would not only recognize vaccines approved for use by the FDA but also the World Health Organization (WHO).
The FDA list of approved vaccines includes:
- Pfizer / BioNTech (now marketed as Comirnaty)
- Moderna (sometimes known as Spikevax)
- J&J Janssen (Offically called Ad26.COV2.S)
In addition, the WHO has granted Emergency Use Listing status to the following four vaccines:
- AstraZeneca (marketed as Vaxzevria)
- Covishied (Which is a recombinant of the ChAdOx1 vaccine)
- Sinopharm
- Sinovac
According to the CDC, airlines have already been informed of the approved list of vaccines to help them prepare before the new system comes into place next month.
Although the CDC was unwilling to release further details on Friday, it’s believed that the U.S. will recognize someone as being fully vaccinated if they completed their final dose of an approved vaccine at least 14-days before travel.
What we don’t yet know is whether the CDC will recognize as fully vaccinated, travelers who have had mix and match vaccine doses or travellers who had doses administered in different countries.
A spokesperson said, “CDC will release additional guidance and information as the travel requirements are finalized.”
There are a number of other questions still to be cleared up such as whether there will be exemptions for children or people who can’t be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons.
Booster doses are not expected to be an issue when the new rules are introduced.
The CDC is also working on a new contact tracing system which is likely to take the form of an electronic passenger locator form.
Restricting entry to only fully vaccinated visitors will allow the Biden administration to lift controversial travel bans on Europe’s Schengen zone and the United Kingdom, as well as a slew of other countries including India, South Africa, Brazil and even China and Iran.
The change might, however, disadvantage travelers who live in countries where access to COVID-19 vaccines is still limited. Anyone vaccinated with Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will also be barred after the WHO delayed its emergency use listing approval.
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