CES Encourages COVID-19 Booster Shots

CES 2022 encouraged attendees to get COVID-19 booster shots. Event organizer CTA “strongly encourages” all participants “to test for COVID-19 before they leave home and within 24 hours before entering a show venue,” it also said Friday. With 19 days before the Las Vegas show's opening, and COVID-19 cases spiking throughout the U.S., CTA elevated protocols to include distribution of a free Abbott Labs BinaxNow rapid antigen self-test kit to anyone who picks up a badge. Abbott CEO Robert Ford is to keynote Jan. 6 at 9 a.m. in the Venetian’s Palazzo Ballroom. CTA will pay the cost of an onsite polymerase chain reaction test for international visitors who need to show their airlines such proof.