Isn't that a standard question not just for covid? There's lots of illnesses (not covid) that you can rule out if someone hasn't travelled recently.
I'm thinking about the classic House episode where the guy holds House and the whole hospital hostage to force House to treat him, and in the end House is like "Are you sure you haven't travelled to a tropical region?" and the guy says "I've never been south of Miami!" and the punchline is he caught a tropical disease in Miami.
This episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Resort_(House)
The thing is though that this particular form - and others like it - are strictly limited to Covid. It's not a catchall form.
Not sure how helpful this is, but it's funny in a sick way to reread discussions from March 2020 now, in light of current events. This, for example. It turns out that my imagination was inadequate.
But doesn't that mean they're trying to ask questions that could rule out other diagnoses with similar symptoms? Or is this people who have already tested positive?
Anyway, I've never been south of Orlando but I think Miami is tropical.
This episode led me to believe that the tropic of cancer in fact went through South Florida, when it clearly does not https://www.keywesttravelguide.com/some-basics-florida-keys-geography-early-history/
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Wikipedia says Miami has a tropical monsoon climate. Dr. House was probably just wrong to miss the diagnosis.
Anyway, since the covid variants have different rates for the various symptoms and are mixed differently around the world, the question in the OP doesn't strike me as a bad idea.
I'm still planning on going to Austria, via Munich, in 10 days.
Teetering on the brink on cancellation, though. At least I'm not going to Florida.
5: In March 2020, we had an office pool for when we would return to the office. We're still not back in any meaningful way, but the winner, by virtue of being the latest guess, was September 2020.
We never had a plan with a date before September 2021.
We have not had a plan ever, though there was some fairly serious speculation in July that we'd be back a couple of days a week in September.
13: The big question is how big of a nightmare would it be if you catch covid and can't fly back for a week or two. Is that a disaster? Or does it mean you just hang out in a beautiful chalet for an extra week and wait it out?
I think it's just a proxy for "rode a plane"
A couple months into the pandemic I bought some cases of chick peas and a large tub of tahini. For some reason I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to go shopping and needed a secure supply of hummus. I still have about half of what I bought.
17 Not a disaster. It looks like vax uptake is better where I'm going than where I am, and certainly mask compliance will be better. That only barely seems to matter for the current variant, though.
5: I was wrong about the "trying not to choose to do so".
You post once or twice a year, you forget how the "name" part of the comment box works.
Charley, I don't know whether you do the Twitter thing, but Tanja Maier (@tanjamaier17) is an Arizonan in Vienna who writes a lot right now about covid and Austria. Might be informative, if you are interested.
It is ridiculous that on a Covid form for a doctor ("Has anyone in your household had a cough in the past 21 days?") they are still asking if anyone has traveled outside the country recently.
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE.
It is ridiculous that on a Covid form for a doctor ("Has anyone in your household had a cough in the past 21 days?") they are still asking if anyone has traveled outside the country recently.
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE.
Monday I had to get an echocardiogram at the local hospital / medical complex. At check-in they gave me an Epic tablet that had various screening questions. It did ask about foreign travel in the past 2 weeks AND it asked about domestic travel in the same period. The former asked about countries and the latter about US states.
My cancer treatment happened during the Ebola epidemic, so I had to answer screening questions about travel to certain African countries multiple times a week. Made sense in that instance, even if it got repetitive.
Relevant to previous threads, right now I have two local acquaintances in severe pain from endometriosis whose previously scheduled surgeries have been pushed back to no earlier than February 1 due to Covid-related staffing issues. One of the two also has ovarian cancer, which, yikes. Two more friends with breast cancer are hoping their lumpectomy and single mastectomy, respectively, aren't delayed.
Unrelated, but I think of it every once in while: I went (several times) to an orthopedist whose intake form asked "Do you use illicit drugs?" I mean, first of all, illicit isn't exactly a medical term, and second, well, pot has been legal in this state for 5 years now, so did it drop off your list of "yes" answers when that happened, or what?
I suppose the real question is "do you take any substances that we don't see on your meds list", but boy there could be a better way of phrasing it.