'If the experience of flying was not safe, you'd expect our people to get sick,' Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says. 'We track the health of our people. Our people are meaningfully less infected than the general population.'
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says flying on an airplane increases the risk of getting COVID-19 pointing to time spent in security lines and airport terminals,"which can bring you in close contact with other people and frequently touched surfaces.
Onboard the aircraft, the CDC admits,"most viruses and other germs do not spread easily on flights because of how air circulates and is filtered on airplanes," but that the risk increases on crowded flights where"social distancing is difficult ... and you may have to sit near others, sometimes for hours."
One recent modeling study published by Harvard's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative estimated that wearing a mask combined with the ventilation rates of aircraft may"reduce infection risk from respiratory particles to less than 1%."Passengers wear protective masks as they check into an international flight at San Francisco International Airport on March 06, 2020.
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