From SFist.com…
Senator Dianne Feinstein today introduced a bill in the Senate that aims to prevent a new winter surge of COVID infections spurred by holiday travel. But between the airline industry and Senate Republicans, this seems doomed to fail out of the gate.
The bill, the U.S. Air Travel Public Safety Act, requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the FAA, to develop national vaccination standards and procedures related to COVID-19 and domestic air travel — and builds off the existing CDC policy that requires negative tests for international travelers entering the country.
It would ostensibly require all airline passengers flying domestically to provide proof of full vaccination or a recent negative COVID test.
“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 said in a statement.
