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Returning to USA CDC Requirements -Positive test results & Medical letter-

Has anyone traveled back to USA from LHR with documentation proving positive Covid test results (within 90 days) & note saying “ok to travel” from licensed medical professional, per CDC website? We have this documentation and thinking we will not need to get Covid test within 1 day of traveling. A little worried that this may prove difficult despite CDC stating this is an option for those who have tested positive (with medical proof of recovery) within 90 days. Please advise, Thank you!

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There is thread of somebody from Italy doing the same. Could not find the link! Pl search the forum. They got a letter from their US doctor and United let the board no problem

Posted by
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I'm the person who posted several weeks ago about my dear friend's experience in Italy when he tested positive. Here is a link to my posting in this forum:

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/testing-covid-positive-in-italy-a-true-story

And here is a link to the forum discussion begun by someone else in which I post my conclusions about how one might handle such a situation in the future, given my friend's experience. Scroll down a bit to my posting:

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/percentage-that-get-stuck-because-of-covid

I would suggest that you read the guidance that your airline posts. If your situation is as you describe, United Airlines (at least) would almost certainly have no problem with that documentation.

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We had a very easy time checking into our flight at LHR. We showed our proof of positive covid test which included name, date, time & place of testing (within 90 days of travel) & a note from health care provider (Patient First) stating “free of symptomatic disease, able to return to work” . The agent checked these papers and let us through to check in for the flight to JFK, no problem. We did not take any covid test in the UK before departing because we had these documents per current 3.15.22 CDC guidelines. I would also recommend the “VeriFLY app”. We used this as well and made the international flying so much easier!

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Hi all - We are flying British Airways to Italy April 9 - 24. My husband and I had covid early March and have letters from our doctors saying we have recovered, but the doctor emailed them to us and did not sign them. All I can find on the CDC site is that we need "a letter". Has anyone heard of a passenger not being able to fly without an actual doctor's signature on the letter? Thanks!

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collamore, I work in a doctors office and we routinely send letters through a online patient portal and have never had any call backs requesting the doctor sign.