Biden’s travel ban on African nations over Omicron variant ‘counterproductive’, says Michael Osterholm, one of America’s most distinguished infectious disease experts who warned 800,000 people could die of COVID-19 in the U.S.

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U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s travel ban on eight African nations over the Omicron variant is “counterproductive,” says Dr. Michael Osterholm, a Regents Professor who is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and author of The New York Times bestseller “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer germs.”