"Expansion of U.S. Airport Nasal Swabbing to Chicago and Miami"

The CDC is expanding its program of testing international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases through nasal swabbing and questionnaire surveys at airports, adding Chicago's O’Hare and Miami. The program aims to gather information on respiratory infections from South America, Africa, and Asia, and has been credited with detecting coronavirus variants faster than other systems. Participants are not notified of their results but are given a COVID-19 home test kit, and the program also tests for flu and RSV. The CDC program has a budget of about $37 million and is working to check for more than 30 different disease-causing germs.