Health
Study centered on Israel flight finds low virus transmission risk on planes – The Times of Israel
Tourists traveling home to Frankfurt from Tel Aviv in March later found to have infection, but appear to have passed it on to only two other passengers
WASHINGTON — Wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus was not widespread in March, when a group of German tourists took a long flight home from Israel — but researchers were surprised to find only two passengers outside the group had been infected.
In a short study published Tuesday in the US medical journal JAMA Network Open, virologists at a university hospital in Frankfurt, Germany meticulously contacted all of the passengers from the flight — none of whom had worn masks at the…
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