Even With Vaccines, Airport Testing Is Here For the Long Haul
Efforts to provide gateside Covid-19 tests are finally gaining traction. And no, it’s not too late.
A medical worker takes a Covid-19 throat swab sample from a passenger in November at a testing station at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport.
Photographer: Maja Hitij/Getty Images EuropeEven as the race to approve and distribute Covid-19 vaccines is entering its final stretch, parts of the travel industry are sprinting to a different finish line: airport testing.
In hubs large and small, from JFK to Boston to Frankfurt, Germany, a variety of companies are figuring out how to scale preflight rapid and PCR Covid testing in hopes of facilitating safe air travel and lessening quarantine requirements for anyone who isn’t first in line for a shot.