Researchers say the risk of getting a respiratory infection from a plane is low, but here are some additional precautions they recommend.👇
Though really, the best place to sit is away from any passenger who's coughing or sneezing.
"There was a perimeter around the person with increased risk," Hertzberg says."Everywhere else, the risk of getting sick was minimal."For instance, there's a chance you could catch tuberculosis when you sit within two rows of someone infected with TB and the flight is longer than eight hours., a coronavirus outbreak from 2002-2003, that transmission zone likely extended to at least three rows around the sick passenger.
Like the flu, the new coronavirus seems to spread mainly through close contact and respiratory droplets. The CDC recommendsfrom anyone who's been diagnosed with the flu or the new coronavirus. So if a person is coughing right next to you and the plane isn't packed, maybe just ask for another seat.It's important to wash your hands frequently with soap and water — that can get rid of pathogens.
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