Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic

by Scott Gottlieb

The US travel ban that was ultimately announced, which went into effect on February 2, would deny entry to foreign nationals who had visited China in the fourteen days prior to their arrival to the US.17 The World Health Organization would largely endorse China’s lockdown of Hubei Province (where Wuhan is located), one of the most sweeping travel restrictions in modern times by any major economy, and yet the WHO would be critical of the restrictions imposed by the US, and other countries, on foreign nationals traveling from China.18 In other words, Chinese nationals couldn’t move around inside China, and the WHO approved of that policy. But if these same individuals somehow managed to get on a plane and travel to the US, and were subsequently not permitted entry into America, the WHO found that policy objectionable.