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Very detailed rundown of the scientific evidence re transmitting COVID on-board planes. Takeaways: 1. Ventilation is inadequate protection 2. Requiring/providing high-quality masks would drastically reduce transmission (cont…) yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-transmission-on-planes?s=r
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3. Unmasked, people sitting next to infected passengers has two-digit % likelihoods of infection. 4. Even short meals did not eliminate all the protection offered by high-quality masks.
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Boarding / disembarking, and time in terminals are times of major infection risk, low ventilation where proximity between index, infected cases is hard to study.