Seven COVID-19 Cases on Same QR flight
 

Hong Kong identifies seven imported cases from same QR flight.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ported-covid-9

QR is one of the only airlines which has a decent schedule to carry passengers from Europe and Africa to HKG so it's not surprising

The full story for the headline of the post:

"Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch at the Centre for Health Protection, said all the latest cases involved people returning from Pakistan, with three family clusters. Seven of them returned on the same Qatar Airways Flight 818 on Wednesday."

Bottom line- if you are in a vulnerable cohort then stay the f home. Otherwise accept life's risks and get on with your life. We now know for a fact the death rate of COVID-19 was originally wildly overstated, and is now determined as on par or less with the USA flu epidemic of 1957/58.

Can't wait to get onto my four QSuites flights this year. Zero fear.

Both selfish and factually incorrect. There is a significantly higher death rate from Covid-19 than H2N2 (1957). The CFR for the world (and USA) at 6%. The IFR is likely to be significantly less given the number of asymptomatic cases but studies such as the one done recently in Spain suggest there are a lot less untested cases than we thought so the IFR is likely to be higher than expected. Expected IFR is between 1-2%.

The CFR of the H2N2 pandemic was 0.6%. So Covid-19 is currently 10x higher death rate using CFR. Covid fatality rates are likely to come down as things settle but to suggest they are the same as the 1957 pandemic is plain wrong.

Well today there are 13 cases solely from QR818.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ds-13-imported

12 more on flight to Athens. Greece has handled this situation well and wisely is now banning flights from Doha for at least two weeks.

https://www.ekathimerini.com/253318/...or-coronavirus

Ouch

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