It may feel like the pandemic is over, but if you are planning a trip, there are specific things you need to do in order to protect yourself. In this talk, experts from the fields of health, travel insurance, and emergency assistance tell you how to prepare.
The WendyPerrin.com team was joined by experts on Covid medicine, travel insurance, and travel emergency assistance:
- Dr. Timothy Triche, Professor of Pathology at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine
- Stan Sandberg, Co-Founder of travel-insurance comparison site TravelInsurance.com
- Sheri Howell, Vice President of air-medical-transport and crisis-response provider Medjet
(6:40) What travel insurance covers and does not cover during this stage of the pandemic
Stan Sandberg of Travelinsurance.com explains what travel insurance covers these days (Covid and otherwise), plus the ins and outs of successfully protecting your investment.
(23:14) The health tools we have for managing Covid concerns when we travel
Dr. Timothy Triche, Professor of Pathology at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, lays out the tools we have to combat Covid when we travel, including why you still want to wear a mask on planes—and which type of mask.
(39:29) Getting yourself home if you run into trouble during a trip
Sheri Howell of Medjet—the membership program that provides global air medical transport, travel security, and crisis response—talks about how and when travelers who are stuck abroad can get home, how Medjet handles members who contract Covid, and how Medjet responds to a security threat or other crisis.
(52:20) Wendy and the experts take questions from the audience
The panelists field questions including how to get medical treatment overseas, whether it’s possible to obtain antivirals ahead of travel, the ideal timing for buying insurance before a trip, and whether Medjet has any age or geographic exclusions.
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