GOP Senators Call for Travel Ban From China to Prevent Mysterious Pneumonia Surge

Several Republican senators this week called on President Joe Biden to implement a travel ban on China to stop a recent surge in pneumonia cases, including clusters reported in Ohio and Massachusetts. Late last month, an alert was sent out about a rise in cases of childhood pneumonia in China, which sparked a call for transparency from the U.N. World Health Organization. Since then, cases of pediatric pneumonia have been found in several other countries, although it’s not clear if they’re linked. The senators, in a letter, cited the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “long history of lying about public health crises” and called on the federal government to take action to protect the U.S. economy and Americans’ health....