{"id":386382,"date":"2020-11-26T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386382"},"modified":"2020-11-26T13:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:10:27","slug":"airlines-stir-doubts-with-flying-is-safe-claim-on-covid-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-stir-doubts-with-flying-is-safe-claim-on-covid-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines stir doubts with \u2018flying is safe\u2019 claim on Covid spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines have loudly insisted that it\u2019s safe to fly during the coronavirus pandemic, and U.S. travel is surging before the Thanksgiving holiday despite a nationwide spike in virus cases. <\/p>\n<p>Yet top U.S. infectious disease experts say the findings underpinning the carriers\u2019 safety claims aren\u2019t that conclusive. <\/p>\n<p>Concerned about the \u201cmisinterpretation\u201d of their findings, researchers on a Defense Department study that has been widely cited by the industry added a cautionary revision. A senior expert in travel-health issues declined to participate in an airline trade group\u2019s press conference, citing what he called their \u201cbad math.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines have loudly insisted that it\u2019s safe to fly during the coronavirus pandemic, and U.S. travel is surging before the Thanksgiving holiday despite a nationwide spike in virus cases. Yet top U.S. infectious disease experts say the findings underpinning the carriers\u2019 safety claims aren\u2019t that conclusive. Concerned about the \u201cmisinterpretation\u201d of their findings, researchers on a Defense Department study that has been widely cited by the industry added a cautionary revision. A senior expert in travel-health issues declined to participate in an airline trade group\u2019s press conference, citing what he called their \u201cbad math.\u201d<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386382","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=386382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}