Whine Wednesday: Crazy, Badly Communicated Covid Testing Requirements For Netherlands-bound Passengers
Whine Wednesday topic this week is about the
highly restrictive Covid testing regime the Netherlands have implemented to flights to/from and via their country.
This especially affects passengers who have booked flights through the busy KLM hub of Amsterdam-Schiphol where non-EU/non-Schengen passengers now have to carry
a negative rapid test taken within 4 hours before boarding.
Such regulations that are not properly communicated make it almost impossible for people to catch their intercontinental flights especially when having connecting feeder flights unless the airline sets up their own testing site.
At Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, they are looking forward to being able to load up that freezer in the building with the vaccine soon. The temperature inside is almost 100 degrees below zero. It will first go to doctors, nurses, and other health care workers who are treating COVID patients, and then to workers and residents at nursing homes. From the vaccine plant in Portage, Michigan, drivers will head to Detroit International Airport. The aircraft carrying the vaccine fly into MIA, where the vaccine will be unloaded onto trucks, and drivers will take the shipments to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami and Memorial Regional in Hollywood.
Updated on December 9, 2020 at 6:58 pm
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Two South Florida hospitals are preparing to take in the vital COVID-19 vaccines that need to be stored in ultra frigid conditions as shots may be given early next week.
At Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, they are looking forward to being able to load up that freezer in the building with the vaccine soon. The temperature inside is almost 100 degrees below zero. Essentially, everything is frozen,” said Dr. Bindu Mayi, an infectious disease expert and professor at Nova Southeastern University’s Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. Keeping the vaccine at that temperature is critical.