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Old 23rd Mar 2020, 04:39
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Originally Posted by Traffic_Is_Er_Was
Of all the hundreds of thousands of people who have flown in internationally, or domestically since all this started, I can't recall one case where someone has tested positive due to exposure to a later confirmed positive case on an aircraft. Sure they contribute to spreading the virus, but they don't seem to be like cruise ships. Even airports with their exposure to the arriving (subsequently) positive cases, have not produced clusters of further virus positives.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa031349
This paper discusses 3 flights where the original SARS (which seems to be less infectious than COVID19) spread on RPT flights. Interestingly, about 1/2 these infections were outside the "2 row zone".
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