Federal officials have investigated cases of people flying while capable of spreading the virus, but confirming such transmissions is difficult.
carrying tourists who were exposed to a hotel manager who had the virus. Seven of them were carrying the virus when they boarded the plane, and the study concluded that it was most likely transmitted to two more people on board.
Scientists know ways to help stop viruses from spreading on airplanes. They’re too late for this pandemic. But the measures are not perfect — stories of passengers refusing to don masks regularly circulate on social media — and scientists have long understood theAirlines also have no way to prevent people who are infected but asymptomatic from flying.
Officials at state and county health departments said that, like the CDC, they’re regularly documenting cases of people flying while capable of spreading the virus. In 2018 and 2019, the CDC investigated about 150 cases of pathogens such as the measles virus and tuberculosis bacteria spreading on planes. Shockey, the CDC spokeswoman, said the team that handles those cases has been expanded to handle the increased workload of tracking coronavirus cases.
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