UPDATE for 10/27/2020 -11/2/2020:
2 states have been (re-)added: California & Massachusetts.
MA has never been on the list before.
No states removed as infection rates are up all over the U.S.
Some good news:
MAINE actually has the LOWEST COVID infection rate in the U.S. despite having oldest population. Keep it up!
SUNY's 64 colleges and universities are planning to test all 140,000-ish students within 10 days of sending them home for Thanksgiving break, in an effort to prevent any community spread. So, you parents will get a healthy child coming home.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Then SUNY will transition most colleges and universities to remote learning after Thanksgiving.
New York, New Jersey, & Connecticut's travel advisory is 39 states & 2 U.S. territories.
If you're traveling to NY/NJ/CT from the following states you must self-quarantine for 14 days.
The states are: (updated as of 10/27/20)
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California (re-added 10/27/20)
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Massachusetts (added 10/27/20)
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
- Guam
- Puerto Rico
There was nothing personal in choosing the states.
The goal of a travel restriction requiring one to quarantine is to try to control the SPREAD of the virus from coming IN from other states. Some states, even with high infection rates, have travel restrictions and quarantining to try to stop their rate going HIGHER, so as to not overwhelm their hospital systems which may already be at their limit.
NY, NJ & CT aren't the
only ones requiring a 14 day quarantine.
There are also about 17 other states. (We just happen to have the only
thread here on the DIS.) The criteria is that these states have, unfortunately, a high infection rate of at least: 10 new COVID positive cases per 100,000 people on a 7 day chart, (called a 7-day rolling average.) OR: at least 10% of the total population is COVID-19 positive on a 7-Day rolling average.
The travel advisory/restriction does not apply to any individual passing through designated states for a limited duration (less than 24 hours,) through the course of travel. Examples of such brief passage include but are not limited to: stopping at rest stops for vehicles, buses, and/or trains; or layovers for air travel, bus travel, or train travel.
Also,
some categories of essential workers who work in critical infrastructure fields are exempt. Check the state's official website for more specific info, as they are different for each state.
Specific links & info for each state will be in the 3 posts after the first post of this thread. There is a post designated for each of the 3 states.
The latest, updated list will always be in the first post. This way people don't have to hunt for it. (The thread title will be updated too, so you know there are changes.)
Here is a
FULL LIST of all states with Coronavirus Travel Restrictions by State compiled by CNN as of 10/20.
However:
As a general rule: before making any trip anywhere, check the official state website (ends in .gov) of the location you plan to visit right before you leave home, as this is such a dynamically changing situation. The travel advisories for that state may change at any time due to local circumstances.
NEW: New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania now have COVID Alert apps which work in conjunction with each other to regionally alert you if you've been in contact with someone for 10 minutes or more, and have been possibly exposed to someone who later tests positive for COVID-19.
If you live in, or are traveling into one of these states, download the app, keep it on your phone for a full 2 weeks after your visit and then delete the app. Hopefully, it will never go off.
I understood their concern and assured them we tested negative days before.
It's been re-added on to 
