Originally Posted by
lonelygod
OP - hope you're feeling better and having a speedy recovery.
The discourse right now just sounds really weird because we hear airlines/research institutions are promoting flying is as safe as going to a grocery store.
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The International Air Transport Assn., the trade group for the world’s airlines, announced this month that there have been only 44 cases this year in which COVID-19 is believed to have been transmitted on a plane. By comparison, the group noted, about 1.2 billion travelers have flown on commercial flights worldwide in the same period."
If there are only 44 cases because of travel, them OP might be not one of them...
This LA times article is quite helpful:
https://www.latimes.com/business/sto...risk-airplanes
Yeah, very hard time believing the 44 cases number. I think that is partially because airlines are hesitant (and have a financial disincentive) to make the claim that someone got COVID from a flight, when there is plausible deniability it could have been from before the flight, the airport, or after the flight. No airline wants a headline of, "25 passengers confirmed with COVID after flying X airlines". Easy way to prevent that headline is to simply not do contact tracing internally..
And FWIW, I was never contacted by King County contact tracers anyway.