Originally Posted by
wintersummer
It just seems like the COVID infection rate in flight attendants should have been higher than the rest of the population. Is anyone familiar with statistics for this highly exposed group?
It does seem like there would be a huge rash of FA's and pilots with COVID and the matching ratio of deaths. But I've only heard of two FA deaths. It is especially odd when you consider that COVID was going on in China even back in December and there were many thousands of people flying every single day all over the world from China. Just LAX alone had thousands of arrivals from China every day in December, January, and February. And up to mid-March there were thousands of people flying to the US from infected Europe. I was one of them and the plane was about 60% full with a full complement of FA's and no one wearing masks.
Who knows? Maybe COVID cannot be transmitted on an airplane for some reason? Maybe the FA's who have been infected, were infected on the ground. Maybe at their hotels. Maybe the scientists haven't gotten around to testing SARS-CoV-2 transmission inside a pressurized cabin?