If You're Vaccinated, You Can Visit The US From Abroad In November

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The Biden administration announced that the U.S. will admit vaccinated foreign travelers beginning November 8th. Also: the latest on vaccination boosters and availability for kids.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national political corrsepondent Mara Liasson, and science editor and correspondent Rob Stein.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Olivia. After two months of being a general assignment reporter at my internship,
0:05.6	tomorrow is my very first day of covering my own beat. This podcast was recorded at
0:11.6	206 PM on Monday, the 18th of October. Things may have changed by the time you hear this,
0:18.7	but I'll still be doing the important work of covering local news. All right, here's the show.
0:24.4	Congratulations. Local news matters now maybe more than ever. That's for sure. Hey there, it's the
0:34.6	NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Mara Laiasin, National
0:39.7	Political Correspondent. And we are going to talk about COVID today. So we've got Rob Stein with us
0:45.2	from NPR's Science and Health team. Hey, Rob. Hey there, Tam. So this is a long windup coming,
0:50.9	but there is a lot happening. The White House has announced that foreign travelers who had been
0:55.3	banned from the US for more than a year are going to be able to start coming back to the US next
1:00.9	month with proof of vaccination. Federal officials have told governors to start preparing to vaccinate
1:06.4	kids as young as five. And there are boosters coming online. Plus COVID case numbers seem to be
1:13.4	in a downward trend at least for about the last month or so. So in broad brush strokes,
1:20.0	it does seem, but please verify that after an unexpectedly awful summer, things maybe are moving
1:27.2	back in the right direction. Yeah, yeah, Tam, absolutely. I mean, you know, the deadly Delta surge
1:33.0	is continuing to wane, thankfully. All the numbers continue to go in the right direction,
1:38.3	infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have been falling pretty steadily for weeks now.
1:43.1	But you know, the country isn't out of the woods yet far from it. More than 80,000 people are still
1:48.5	catching the virus every day. More than 1200 are still dying every day. Hospitals are still
1:53.4	struggling around the country. Yeah, I mean, I think that if in June, you had told me that there
1:58.3	would be 80,000 cases a day in October, I would have been super depressed. Yeah, I know. It's awful.
2:05.2	But now it's like we're saying there's a silver lining. Yeah, yeah, but you know, we are heading
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