As some Americans prepare to travel for the July 4 holiday weekend, and airlines slowly ramp up service, the U.S. government has not changed rules for air travel during the pandemic, leaving airlines to implement their own measures.
FILE PHOTO: A member of a ground crew walks past American Airlines planes parked at the gate during the coronavirus disease outbreak at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File PhotoThat is the trick, according to infectious disease specialist Dr. William Schaffner of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center: “To implement a series of measures that work together to reduce risk.
Is he personally ready to fly? Not yet: people should still be sheltering in place if they can and avoid unnecessary travel, he said. “By its very nature when you jam people together into a tube of toothpaste such as a plane, that’s close contact and you’re going to assume some risk while you do that,” he said.Major U.S. airlines all require masks and have threatened to remove a passenger’s flying rights for failing to comply.HEPA AIR FILTERS
These hospital-grade filters are standard on commercial aircraft and filter cabin air about every three minutes, removing 99.97% of airborne particles.
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