Covid Risk on Flights Between New York and London ‘Less Than One in a Million’
The risk of exposure to COVID-19 when flying between New York and London after all the passengers have obtained a negative PRC test result 72 hours in advance is less than a one in a million, a study of transatlantic service by Delta Air Lines has shown. Travel Weekly has more.
The research examined data from almost 10,000 passengers on Delta’s Covid-tested flights between New York-JFK and Atlanta to Rome.
It found that a single COVID-19 molecular test performed within 72 hours of departure could decrease the rate of people actively infected on board to a level that is significantly below active community infection rates.
For example, when the average community infection rate was at 1.1% – or about one in 100 people – infection rates on Covid tested flights were 0.05% or five in 10,000 passengers.
The U.S. carrier’s chief health officer Dr Henry Ting said: “When you couple the extremely low infection rate on board a Covid-19-tested flight with the layers of protection on board including mandatory masking and hospital-grade air filtration, the risk of transmission is less than one in one million between the United States and the United Kingdom, for example.
“These numbers will improve further as vaccination rates increase and new cases decrease worldwide.”
He added: “We are going to live with COVID-19 variants for some time. This real-world data – not simulation models – is what governments around the world can use as a blueprint for requiring vaccinations and testing instead of quarantines to re-open borders for international travel.”
Using real world data to assess the risk posed by COVID-19? That’ll never catch on.
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From above: … risk of exposure to COVID-19 when flying between New York and London after all the passengers have obtained a negative PRC test result …
PRC test? Freudian slip or what?
and I quote…
“The CDC released a statement in response to the FDA’s recall, urging clinics to abandon the PCR test in favor of an “FDA-authorized” alternative.
“After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only,” the CDC website states.
“CDC is providing this advance notice for clinical laboratories to have adequate time to select and implement one of the many FDA-authorized alternatives.”
The Age of Unreason.
The near complete absence of mainstream voices pointing out the utter absurdity of all the “covid-related” international travel regulatory burdens, or the utter absurdity of all the “vaccine”-pushing measures, tells you that we still live under the elite mass hysteria that descended upon the world at the beginning of 2020.
0.1% or “5 in ten thousands” is not one in a million.
Study also done in Dec 20 which is not only before Delta, its before Alpha.
Oh and IATA show only 40% load factors for that period.
Several problems with the story. First the community prevalence is not 1% but < 0.2%. The RT/PCR test has a false negative rate of greater than 50% so at least half of passengers with an active infection will test negative. So in a 10K population group at least 10 to 20 would have an active infection. Stick them in a very well ventilated environment with HEPA 4 filters and at least 2x the normal circulating air flow turnover in a period of seven hours the viral exposure would be about the same as everyone wearing properly seated N99 respirator masks. Basically none. All those colds you get when flying are acquired in the airports not the airplanes. Unless the airline took short cuts with recirculate rate and did not change the filters at the correct time interval. The facesmasks all passengers are forced to wear providing zero actual added viral protection but makes an often unpleasant journey truly hell. But there again we are dealing with a bureaucracy that forces everyone to take off their shoes for security reasons even though the one attack failed miserably almost 20 years ago and the bureaucracy in question has failed every single security… Read more »
Most people, unless they are nuts, take quickie antigen tests before flying to and from most countries. Please stop saying ‘PCR’ . As others have said, there are many errors in the article.
I am not nuts and I am not shoving any swabs up my nose regardless of what acronym they come under in order to be able to travel.
Anyone that goes along with this is nuts.
You’ve more chance of getting a complaint upheld by the BBC. (0.014%).
More meaningless data built around the term ‘infection’ – aka positive testing.
It’s almost laughable. If you exclude passengers on the basis of a test result – then it’s not rocket science to know that those boarding will have a lower incidence of RNA fragments!
… but what that has to do with actual disease and transmission is entirely a different ball game.
Then we have validation of the mask shit.
Say no more!
The chief press release officer of $random_us_company is hereby kindly requested to write his opinions on mandatory vaccination to prevent nothing in particular onto a postit and stick that to the door of a loo in his home.
We are going to live with COVID forever.
It sounded possibly plausible until masks and people being vaccinated were thrown into the mix as being efficacious, then it just became more of the same drivel that’s been endlessly doled out since March 1920.
It’s somewhat useful as confirmation that the WHO and whoever listens to them are still operating in Zero COVID mode: We will have to live with variants for a while, until Sars-CoV2 has been eradicated! No other outcome is acceptable! Fuck the people! The almighty WHO has spoken!
Pretend virus !! the truth is now coming, out the real virus caused untold and horrible virtue signalling in an attempt to stop the story ebbing away from the media and preventing everybody ,even the stupid ones from noticing that a year later nothing but nothing was any where near as bad as those wonky scientist predicted .So wear a mask on a plane after you have been vaccinted not once but twice for a virus that barely ever existed
The only information worth reading in full:
By LCAHub / 9 September 2021
“Numbers will improve as ‘vaccination’ rates increase”.
Worldometer reported “Covid” deaths world wide for week ending 06/09/20: c. 37,038.
And for week ending 06/09/21: 66,802. Don’t hold your breath.
How on earth can this be used as a blueprint for requiring vaccinations instead of quarantines when the argument is that there is reduced exposure if a test is taken to confirm no SARS-COV-2? Another terrific example of drawing conclusions which are not evident within the discussion regarding analysis of data. I wouldn’t accept this from an undergraduate student never mind an industry publication. Of course they fail to note that the vaccinated also get sick (more some studies would suggest but that is another argument) but I do hope they got trounced for this!