CDC Makes Big Airport Announcement

yesterday without much or any media Fanfare the CDC quietly released a statement announcing the expansion of what they call a traveler based genomic surveillance program and in case you've never heard of it before here's specifically how the CDC defines a traveler based genomic surveillance program quote traveler based genomic surveillance program or TGs for short is a public private partnership that plays an important role in US national biocurity through its two major goals early protection of new SARS C2 variants and other pathogens and filling in gaps in global bios surveillance and while this particular program was first introduced during the pandemic specifically to screen for coid this announcement from the CDC made just yesterday informs us that they are now expanding the program to test for other viruses as well quote the expansion of the traveler based genomic surveillance program to the flu RSV and other pathogens is essential as we head into the fall respiratory season the TGs program which began during the co 19 pandemic acted as an early warning system to detect new and rare variants of the SARS CO2 virus and will do the same for other respiratory viruses going forward in total this program has now been expanded to screen for over 30 different pathogens outside of Co now according to the CDC the way that this program will be implemented in practice in airports across the whole country will be three-fold for one it will involve taking nasal swabs of arriving passengers secondly it will involve testing the aircraft Wastewater and thirdly it will also involve testing samples of the Wastewater in several different major airports meaning that if you thought that the TSA was already invading your privacy with their pad Downs well they're about to go in with the nasal swaps although that is of course just a joke as it's not actually going to be the TSA which is doing this instead the CDC has partnered with two private companies that are going to be implementing this pilot program Geno bioworks as well as Express Check and Geno bioworks they publish their own addendum statement in addition to the one that was put out by the CDC outlining how this will be done quote gko bioworks which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biocurity is expanding their work with the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention meaning the cdc's traveler based genomic surveillance program or TGs to test for more than 30 additional priority pathogens in addition to SARS Co 2 the program expansion will launch at four of the program's seven major international airports specifically New York JFK San Francisco Boston as well as Washington DC the expansion will enhance the program's ability to Monitor and change Focus as needed to identify priority pathogens the TGs program can augment Global surveillance systems especially as testing and sequencing information becomes limited as Co 19 monitoring wains however it is worth noting here that at least at this very moment this particular program can only give things like insights and general Trends over to the CDC it cannot isolate a specific individual and say that he or she has a specific virus virus that's because this program is designed for monitoring the macro conditions rather than individuals and so by testing the Wastewater and airplanes and airports they're able to determine generally which viruses are coming into the country and from where furthermore the nasal swabs at least according to the CDC are currently anonymous quote the cdc's program has quote unquote enrolled more than 360,000 air Travelers since it was implemented in late 2021 and it is both voluntary and Anonymous it covers flights for more than 13 countries around the world meaning in Practical terms that the CDC will be able to tell which virus is coming from where but not which specific individual is carrying that virus that is at least if you believe what they're putting out regardless in terms of which airports the CDC released this map right here showing us that the Seattle Tacoma International Airport San Francisco International LAX Boston Logan International JFK New York as well as the airport over in Washington DC all have some forms of this program now implemented however interestingly enough if you look at that map closely you'll notice that there is no mention of any biometric surveillance being conducted at the US Southern border where at this very moment you have at least 3 million illegal aliens coming through every single year and those are by the way just the ones we know about furthermore this genomic surveillance program is being sold to the public right now as a temporary pilot program to keep biometric surveillance on the pathogens entering the country which sounds great it sounds like a great advancement in terms of keeping the country safe however do keep in mind the very famous quote by Economist Milton Freedman quote nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program and so while right now this program has only been rolled out to several airports across the whole country to track both CO as well as 30 other pathogens using anonymized nasal swaps sounds great on paper but it's a real question of how long it takes before this temporary program expands to all airports and then becomes a prerequisite for even getting on the plane in the first place I mean don't don't forget taking off your shoes was once seen as a temporary solution to 911 but 22 years later well here we still are regardless if you'd like to learn more about this cdc's genomic surveillance program I'll throw my research notes for today's episode they'll be down in the description box below this video for you to peruse at your own Leisure and I will mention that it's that very same description box right below those like And subscribe buttons both of which I hope you take a super quick moment to smash and now I'd like to take a super quick moment myself to 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