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Does anyone have any reliable information on the risks of flying right now? I took a couple flights this week, seemed to be status quo. People of all ages flyin
by capkutay 7y ago
Does anyone have any reliable information on the risks of flying right now? I took a couple flights this week, seemed to be status quo. People of all ages flying with no one practicing any special hygiene measures.
- avip 7y agoDepending on your destination, there's a non-trivial risk you'll be immediately bumped back to origin. Stay tuned.
- jaynetics 7y agoAre you referring to the risk of getting infected on board? I've read about a German case where a passenger was found to be infected. They tried to trace everyone who sat within 2 rows of him. Not sure if this is a very thorough approach and really represents the "danger zone". Might even depend on the plane model and quality of air conditioning.
- EamonnMR 7y agoThe risk is that you'll be the one who infects a new community.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoThis formula gives you the odds someone on a plane is infected: 1-(1-IR)^N N is the number of seats. IR is the infection rate. Takes a lot of assumptions to get the odds someone on the plane is infected, and even more to get the answer you want. The biggest assumption would be how likely you are to get the virus just because someone on your plane has it. You could replace the N with total number of people at an airport. Again, not that helpful because it takes a lot of assumptions and only gives you half the picture.
- wutbrodo 7y agoThat's assuming that the individual infection probabilities are independent, which is not at all warranted.
- fulafel 7y agoThe IPCC has good information on the climate effects. The growing amount of air travel looks quite worrying.