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CDC: Airlines should leave middle seats empty to reduce COVID-19 risk – Business Insider
Leaving middle seats empty on airplanes could reduce the risk of exposure by 23% to 57% when people aren’t wearing masks, a CDC study found.
This summer, every major US airline will have middle seats open to purchase on planes.
But a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study suggests that could be a great way to invite COVID-19 to spread aboard flights, especially when passengers might lower their masks to eat or drink.
The CDC report, out Wednesday, estimated how far coronavirus aerosols (airborne particles that can linger) could spread on a plane. To do this, researchers modeled how a similar virus spread among mannequins…
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