Coronavirus infection: How likely are you to catch COVID-19 on a flight? – NEWS.com.au

Sitting in a packed plane cabin might seem a risky proposition during a pandemic, but a statistics professor says the actual odds of catching the virus while flying might be lower than you think.Arnold Barnett, a professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, says he has crunched the numbers to determine the actual likelihood of infection on a plane.
Prof Barnett’s study focused on two-hour flights in the United States and considered the benef…

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