{"id":379401,"date":"2020-10-20T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T03:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=379401"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T04:07:52","slug":"bad-math-airlines-covid-19-safety-analysis-challenged-by-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bad-math-airlines-covid-19-safety-analysis-challenged-by-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad math: Airlines&#8217; Covid-19 safety analysis challenged by expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A campaign by coronavirus-stricken aviation giants to persuade the world it&#8217;s safe to fly has been questioned by one of the scientists whose research it draws upon. <\/p>\n<p>Dr David Freedman, a US infectious diseases specialist, said he declined to take part in a recent presentation by global airline body IATA with planemakers Airbus, Boeing and Embraer that cited his work.<\/p>\n<p>While he welcomed some industry findings as &#8220;encouraging&#8221;, Freedman said a key assertion about the improbability of catching Covid-19 on planes was based on &#8220;bad math&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines and planemakers are anxious to restart international travel, even as the second wave of infections and restrictions take hold in many countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A campaign by coronavirus-stricken aviation giants to persuade the world it&#8217;s safe to fly has been questioned by one of the scientists whose research it draws upon. Dr David Freedman, a US infectious diseases specialist, said he declined to take part in a recent presentation by global airline body IATA with planemakers Airbus, Boeing and Embraer that cited his work. While he welcomed some industry findings as &#8220;encouraging&#8221;, Freedman said a key assertion about the improbability of catching Covid-19 on planes was based on &#8220;bad math&#8221;. Airlines and planemakers are anxious to restart international travel, even as the second wave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}