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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA woman died of coronavirus on a plane. Her fellow passengers were never notified.
When Spirit Airlines learned that a Texas woman had died of covid-19 on one of its flights in July, the airline said it alerted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and received an acknowledgment from the agency.
But Spirit spokesman Erik Hofmeyer said it was never asked by health authorities to share passenger manifests to aid in tracking down people who might have been exposed.
State health officials in New Mexico, where the woman was declared dead after the Dallas-bound flight was diverted to Albuquerque, acknowledged they failed to investigate, as did the CDC.
The first the womans fellow passengers probably heard that her death was caused by the virus was in October, when The Washington Post and other news organizations were able to determine what flight the woman had been on, building on limited details about the case that were released by officials in Dallas County. By that time, it was far too late for the information to be useful in helping slow the potential spread of the virus.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-woman-died-of-coronavirus-on-a-plane-her-fellow-passengers-were-never-notified/ar-BB1azFNE?li=BBnb7Kz
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Or another cruise ship EVER again.
This is criminal!
BigmanPigman
(51,607 posts)Epidemiologists estimate the actual number of Covid cases in the US to be 5 times as high as the numbers currently being reported.
5 times!!!!!!!
9.4 million × 5......... = 47 million....... 1 out of 7 Americans have been infected.
Who knows what the real number of deaths is. We'll probably have to wait for a change in leadership from the top down to see what that amount is.
tormadjax
(164 posts)So actually she may have been less contagious that the live people who were still breathing. Not trying to be morbid but. I would not want to know if she was on my plane until after I had deplaned. What can I do if I'm at 33,000 feet? Id be trapped KNOWING a person on my plane had it!