How can airlines claim flights are safe when there is no record of who was infected on board.
https://twitter.com/myrabatchelder/status/1384201053072072719
"There is a new record for the number of coronavirus infections traced back to a single commercial airline flight. A whopping 47 passengers..from New Delhi to Hong Kong April 4 have since tested positive for Covid-19. That number represents 25% of the 188 passengers on board.
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"All passengers..had tested negative for the virus within 72 hours prior to departure, in keeping with Hong Kong’s travel requirements. Yet 25 travelers tested positive immediately after landing in Hong Kong, and a further 22 cases were discovered on day 12.
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"While this happened on the other side of the world, Americans should not assume it could never happen here — or that it hasn’t already happened. But we may never know.
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"The United States has never implemented a contact tracing program for air travelers — even more than a year into the pandemic, and even as new variants pop up around the world.
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"One likely reason is that the airline industry has pushed back on government-mandated restrictions, while issuing its own research and implementing protocols it claims prove that flying is a low-risk activity.
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"At the same time, multiple independent studies — from UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Vietnam and other countries — found Covid-19 can indeed spread on long-haul flights. In each case, researchers traced Covid-19 outbreaks back to one or more individuals who had recently flown...
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