Just a sidetrack , but I friend of ours flew this week and the airport was nuts on social distancing and he took these pictures. At the checkin and then on the plane. The airlines just doesn't get it.Pack them in like nothing ever happened.
I'm still not sure what to think about airline travel. There have been some case studies that seem to show the risk is relatively low if everyone wears masks. Personally, I don't think I'll fly until after I get vaccinated.
I'd be extremely uncomfortable if I was on a flight with someone who was coughing.
>>>Early in the coronavirus pandemic, air travel looked like a risky endeavor. Some scientists even worried that airplanes could be sites of superspreading events. For example, in March a Vietnamese businesswoman with a sore throat and a cough boarded a flight in London. Ten hours later, she landed in Hanoi, Vietnam; she
infected 15 people on the flight, including more than half of the passengers sitting with her in business class. . . .
"Since April, Emirates has had a very rigid masking policy," Freedman says. Not only does the airline require passengers and crew members to wear masks, but flight attendants also make sure everyone keeps on their masks, as much as possible, throughout the entire flight.
Freedman looked at all Emirates flights from Dubai to Hong Kong between June 16 and July 5. What he found is quite telling. During those three weeks, Emirates had five flights with seven or more infected passengers on each flight, for a total of 58 coronavirus-positive passengers flying on eight-hour trips. And yet, nobody else on the planes — none of the other 1,500 to 2,000 passengers — picked up the virus, Freedman and his colleague
report in the
Journal of Travel Medicine.
"Those were flights with higher risk, and yet there was no transmission," Freedman says. On another Emirates flight, a whopping 27 coronavirus-positive people boarded the plane in Dubai. Guess how many other passengers were infected on the eight-hour flight? "There appear to have been two in-flight transmissions," Freedman says. . . .
All together, these data suggest masks are working — and working well. "There's encouraging evidence from a number of flights that masking does help greatly, but it would be nice to study it better," he says. "The circumstantial evidence is, your risk is low on a plane, if there is rigid masking."<<<
On an eight-hour Emirates flight, with mask-wearing enforced, a whopping 27 coronavirus-positive people boarded the plane in Dubai. Guess how many passengers got infected?
www.npr.org
This article says the virus can spread on long haul flights (not exactly a surprise, of course)
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2020/11/20/another-study-finds-covid-19-can-spread-on-long-airline-flights/?sh=360bb206379d