But wait, I thought the airlines told us that flying was perfectly safe! I am certain their research is the best and most objective in the field!https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1320827686240030721 …
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Indeed - I think the filtration is pretty impressive. But there's lots of involuntary physical contact on planes. And sitting close to someone may spread virus with those in close vicinity. I am uncomfortable with flying becoming "safe" given current case increases.
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And most people wear masks on planes. Put those together and we have a remarkable natural experiment whose preliminary results suggest that mere proximity over a long period of time is a necessary but almost always insufficient condition for infection.
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I read the paper partly as they were maybe infected in the airport lounge(s) in transit. But worth reading the paper (tis here: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.42.2001624#html_fulltext …)
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Indeed. Worth reading. And very important that flying is an end to end experience, not just the time on the aircraft, which as
@zeynep points out, might be the safest part of the process.
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Or we have subpar contact tracing. Or both. Lack of evidence that there were no cases does not mean there were no cases.
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At the beginning, I'd say the same thing but I think after nine months, lack of evidence begins to say something more than we don't know, despite, agree, the subpar tracing. Of all environments, plane transmission events are among the easiest to identify.
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