This simple trick cuts your risk of coronavirus in two
A MIT statistician states that this is how we should all steal the friendly sky.
The question about the minds of many Americans: what is his safety to travel by plane? Although the majority of the country has chosen from refuge instead for several months, the last month, the last month, it has been considerably picked up. If you are looking to browse the friendly heavens as safe as possible, Professor Arnold Barnett, a statistician at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says there is an easy way to reduce your chances of catching incredibly infectious and potentially fatal virus .
This simple trick reduces your risk
The trick consists of ensuring that the average seat next to you is empty. Barnett points research and recent data, considering that when all coach seats are full of aircraft in the United States, your risk of contracting Covid-19 from a nearby passenger is about 1 out of 7,000 , which would be equivalent to ten sick people for 70,000 people. Travelers. However, if the middle seat you are empty, your risk is half to 1 out of 14,000. An even better way to further reduce the risk is to further reduce the amount of passengers even more.
Barnett also highlights that you are more likely to die from Covid-19 that you have contracted on an airplane than to die in an aircraft accident, but overall, your chances of mortality because of the virus and the way Aerial are "probably less than one in one million."
Barnett points out that leave the empty seat shows a "measurable reduction" in the risk of transmission. "The question is whether one third of the seating capacity is too high to pay the additional precaution," he writes. He adds that there is also another option in which the airplane infection rate would be "essentially drop to zero" -If there was a thin layer of plexiglass between seats.
The good news is, a number of airlines-Alaska, Delta, Jetblue, Southwest Airlines, Frontier, Easyjet and Spirit - currently have an "average seat" policy in place.
Wear your face mask
BarnettNon-peer-reviewed studyWas based on the hypothesis that travelers would only fall sick to sit in the same rank that an infected passenger, a potential infection during boarding or displacing, walking around the aircraft or because of the viruses left on all surfaces. He also decided that no passengers wore masks, which could reduce the transmission of 80%.
No matter where you go, or how do you get there, wear your face mask, your social distance, wash your hands frequently, watch your health and cross this pandemic at your healthier, do not miss these37 places you are most likely to catch coronavirus.
