Health experts warn China travel ban will hinder coronavirus response
Some conservative lawmakers and far-right supporters of President Trump are calling on the U.S. government to ban travel from mainland China in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Trump administration’s decision to ban most foreign nationals who had been to China in the last two weeks from traveling to the United States amid an accelerating outbreak of a novel coronavirus there was preceded by calls for similar policies from conservative lawmakers and far-right supporters of the president. Public health experts, however, warn that the move could do more harm than good.
The administration’s public health emergency declaration also requires U.S. citizens returning from China to undergo some level of quarantine, depending on
