US Senator proposes vaccine requirement for domestic air travel

US Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced legislation that would require all domestic air travellers to prove they are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, or show a negative test result in accordance with guidelines set forth by the CDC. The democratic Senator from California says on 29 September that the rules as laid out in the “US Air Travel and Public Safety Act” would mirror those for travellers returning to the USA from overseas. “We know that air travel during the 2020 holiday season contributed to last winter’s devastating Covid-19 surge. We simply cannot allow that to happen again,” Feinstein says. “Ensuring that air travelers protect themselves and their destination communities from this disease is critical to prevent the next surge, particularly if we confront new, more virulent variants of Covid-19. It only makes sense that we also ensure the millions of airline passengers that criss-cross our country aren’t contributing to further transmission, especially as young children remain ineligible to be vaccinated.”<br/>