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Risk of infection on planes doubled with omicron: report
The Hill ^ | 12/22/2021 | MONIQUE BEALS

Posted on 12/22/2021 5:52:39 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The leading medical adviser to a group representing nearly 300 airlines said in a new interview that aircraft passengers are two or three times more likely to be infected with COVID-19 on a flight since the emergence of the omicron variant.

"Whatever the risk was with delta, we would have to assume the risk would be two to three times greater with omicron, just as we’ve seen in other environments," Dr. David Powell, physician and medical adviser to the International Air Transport Association, told Bloomberg News.

He added that "it’s just that the relative risk has probably increased, just as the relative risk of going to the supermarket or catching a bus has increased with omicron."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doubled; infection; omicron; planes
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Then shut down the airlines until April! Stay home stay safe! (s)
1 posted on 12/22/2021 5:52:39 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

fear porn since no one can actually measure,
with accurate discrimination, the variant.


2 posted on 12/22/2021 5:57:40 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

TPTB are really pushing this fear porn


3 posted on 12/22/2021 5:59:59 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So if I fly I might get a cold. Oh the huge manatee.


4 posted on 12/22/2021 6:00:06 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Doubled”

Double of what? “Whatever the risk was with delta”. OK, so what was the risk (per hour of plane travel, say) with Delta? The article doesn’t bother with such trivialities.


5 posted on 12/22/2021 6:02:30 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

assume Such a scientific way of doing things. Not only assume but we have to assume.


6 posted on 12/22/2021 6:03:20 AM PST by pas
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They supposedly just discovered this ‘variant’, yet, it is now claimed to be the most prevalent in all cases. Total BS. Of course, the feeble minded gullible types will now go hide under their beds.


7 posted on 12/22/2021 6:03:55 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

illegals are riding on those planes.


8 posted on 12/22/2021 6:04:14 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stats? Of course not.
Study? Don’t even think about it.
Idiots? Well, it did come from a D.C. standard collection of journalism majors. But, they did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.


9 posted on 12/22/2021 6:05:27 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: cuban leaf

bidAn should now encourage EVERYBODY, vaxxed and the unwashed unvaxxed masses to fly.

Like the chicken-pox parties of old, everybody should get omi-god-cron, to acquire *REAL* herd immunity.


10 posted on 12/22/2021 6:06:12 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only answer we have is more masking. Or vodka.

If everyone would just sterilize with vodka, we could beat this thing!


11 posted on 12/22/2021 6:06:26 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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They are pretending to do lots and lots of genetic testing so that that can say with full assurance that Omicron is here, there, and everywhere. More BS. I say they are mostly doing the same old PCR testing and just declaring “Must be Omicron!”


12 posted on 12/22/2021 6:06:35 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wow, Biden really doesn’t want people to get together over Christmas. You know, people at parties and gatherings could talk about their planschemic.

That said. all the sicko swamp thugs will wine and dine the holidays away!


13 posted on 12/22/2021 6:06:35 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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Yep, they are. It is also a good excuse to keep crazy family members at home.


14 posted on 12/22/2021 6:07:57 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They just make crap up in the fly. ‘Experts say’.


15 posted on 12/22/2021 6:08:00 AM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: rightwingcrazy

When you pull numbers out of your arse, why worry about details?


16 posted on 12/22/2021 6:08:22 AM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And just like that the Delta Variant was gone!


17 posted on 12/22/2021 6:08:45 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whatever the risk was with delta,

we would have to assume

has probably increased,


Yeah. Given that the chances of transmission on aircraft was essentially zero (masks appeared to actually have had an effect here against the already very small chances of transmission),
is three times zero still zero?


18 posted on 12/22/2021 6:10:47 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Flew with my unvaxxed mother to Florida (aka Delta Central) last July. Zero issues

Daughter and fiance are arriving tonight from Cali (aka Omicron He!!). Let’s see....what is three times zero?


19 posted on 12/22/2021 6:11:51 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another hour, even more attempted, pathetic fear porn from the far left fake news media.
“Risk of infection has doubled” with Omicron huh?
To what end?
Just how many people have actually died from this fake Omicron? Just one death in the entire UK last time I looked.


20 posted on 12/22/2021 6:14:02 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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