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“The risk for on-board transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during long flights is real and has the potential to cause COVID-19 clusters of substantial size, even in business class-like settings with spacious seating arrangements well beyond the established distance used to define close contact on airplanes,” the study concluded.

A single airline passenger unknowingly sickened with coronavirus managed to infect 15 other people aboard the 10-hour trip to Vietnam, highlighting the dangers of travel amid the pandemic. The global health crisis had only just begun its spread across Europe when the plane took off from a London airport back in March. By the time it touched down in the Vietnamese city of Hanoi, 12 passengers in business class, two in economy and a single crew member had contracted the fast-spreading disease. Researchers behind a new Centers for Disease Control study, slated to be published in November, identified a 27-year-old business woman from Vietnam to be the likely source of the outbreak. She’d been based in London since early January and was experiencing a sore throat ahead of her return home. “On February 22, case 1 and her sister returned to Milan, Italy, and subsequently traveled to Paris, France, for the yearly Fashion Week before returning back to London on February 25,” they wrote in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Around that time, few cases had been reported in Britain and masks had not yet been required for the flight, which departed on March 1. “She was seated in business class and continued to experience the sore throat and cough throughout the flight,” the researchers added. Five days later, she went to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. CDC researchers then tracked down all 217 passengers and crew, tested them for the virus and ordered them quarantine. Investigators said there was no other likely way any of the 15 people could have been infected aside from exposure to the sick patient. “The most likely route of transmission during the flight is aerosol or droplet transmission from case 1, particularly for persons seated in business class,” they wrote. “Contact with case 1 might also have occurred outside the airplane at the airport, in particular among business class passengers in the predeparture lounge area or during boarding.” And while researchers believe masks are an effective tool to prevent the spread of the virus, they called for additional on-board precautions and screening procedures.

“The risk for on-board transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during long flights is real and has the potential to cause COVID-19 clusters of substantial size, even in business class-like settings with spacious seating arrangements well beyond the established distance used to define close contact on airplanes,” the study concluded.

Nick Note: I want to be crystal clear here. Flying will put you at extreme risk of catching the coronavirus. Taking temperate and even testing only tells you the passenger was not infected 2 weeks ago. Airlines recirculate 50% of the cabin air. The filters are minimal HEPTA H10. A sick joke. And and i can tell you for a fact their is NO disease tracing of people who fly that have gotten sick. 4 staff members contracted the virus. Musa, Dennis and recently Anna. Dennis and Anna were treated with  Hydroxycholoroquine. I was i n contact with Musa and Dennis and despite our papers masks at the time I got symptoms. I immediately took Hydroxycholoroquine And my mild symptoms disappeared.  Muad trusted the English health care system. By the time Anna flew we had our new P3 filters. Anna tested positive twice and was cured with Hydroxycholoroquine and after 10 days tested negative.  By the time Anna returned we were smarter and put her in isolation, Unfortunately for Musa their were no tests available at the time and he was dying. I got involved and insisted he get a MRI which i payed for because the English health care system would not provide the scan. The results showed scarring and inflammation which was treated with steroids. His infection and swelling cleared up. But unfortunately he had permanent lung damage and is unable to work. So i do not want to hear any airlines self serving spin. New policy you fly don’t come here. For the record their was no follow up or infection testing or tracing by the airlines.  Other airlines do not get involved when passengers get sick after a flight, which is most often the case. They do not care and do not want to know. You fly you die!!! Musa by his choice is no longer with us and i am sad…… Funny how this CDC study has been burred……. FUCK the airlines…….. I feel guilty since p payed for all the flights. For the record i begged Anna not to make the trip…….. It is now settled business NO FLYING…… And interesting no one is arguing with me any more!

WASHINGTON — After a month of political conventions, fresh controversies, more protests and additional deaths from the coronavirus, the 2020 presidential race remains where’s it’s been for months — with Joe Biden leading President Trump nationally by nearly double digits, and with a majority of voters opposing the president.   Those are the results of a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which finds Biden ahead by 8 points among registered voters, 51 percent to 43 percent, with more than 50 percent of voters disapproving of Trump’s job performance and with Trump holding the advantage on the economy and Biden holding the edge on the coronavirus.

What’s more, the poll shows that close to 90 percent of voters have firmly made up their minds, and that seven-in-10 believe the upcoming debates aren’t that important in deciding their vote.

“So far, despite major upheavals in the country, little has changed,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt, whose firm conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. “In 2020, the fundamentals of our country have been shaken to our core, while the fundamentals of the election have not,” Horwitt added. Still, the poll finds that 11 percent of all voters are up for grabs, which is greater than Biden’s ballot advantage over Trump. And Trump’s numbers have inched up in the poll since the summer, while Biden’s favorability rating has also improved in the past month. “Trump’s summer swoon is over,” said McInturff, the GOP pollster. The NBC News/WSJ poll — conducted Sept. 13-16 — comes after a turbulent and eventful month of news, including the Democratic and Republican conventions, the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, some 30,000 more deaths from the coronavirus, the Atlantic report alleging the president disparaged fallen military service members and the coverage of Bob Woodward’s new book on Trump. But the poll was conducted before the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18. According to the survey, Biden leads Trump, 51 percent to 43 percent, among registered voters — essentially unchanged from Biden’s 9-point lead last month, 50 percent to 41 percent. Six percent in the current poll say they’re undecided or supporting another candidate. Biden’s biggest advantages in the poll are among Black voters (he gets support from 90 percent of them to 5 percent for Trump), voters ages 18-34 (60 percent to 31 percent), women (57 percent to 37 percent), whites with college degrees (54 percent to 41 percent), independents (45 percent to 39 percent) and seniors (50 percent to 46 percent). Trump, meanwhile, has the edge among all white voters (52 percent to 43 percent), men (50 percent to 45 percent) and whites without college degrees (59 percent to 36 percent). (A separate NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo oversample of Latino voters will be released on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET to gauge where the Latino vote stands in the presidential race.) And in the combined 12 swing states — Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — Biden is ahead of Trump by 6 points, 51 percent to 45 percent.

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DUESSELDORF, Germany — Hundreds of people demonstrated in downtown Duesseldorf Sunday against government coronavirus restrictions and in support of a host of other causes. People waved signs with slogans like “end to panic, corona pandemic is a lie” and “corona rebels” as songs decrying coronavirus restrictions were played. They chanted “free Julian Assange” along with one speaker, and formed a “W” — symbolizing “we all” — with their hands, which they raised over their heads as the theme to Chariots of Fire played. No masks were to be seen, aside from on journalists covering the rally, and a few children mingled among the crowd. Before breaking away to walk along a route through the western city, the crowd swayed to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” and a man in a Superman costume sang along. Police reported no incidents.

In France, Health Minister Olivier Veran pointed to what he called a worrying increase in the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care. More infections among the oldest people means there will probably be even more hospitalizations and deaths in coming weeks, French authorities said. Because people who are sick usually take a few weeks to get worse, there’s a time lag before new infections begin to cause a shift in mortality rate. Veran appealed directly to French seniors, asking them to better protect themselves by cutting back on the number of people they see every day because they are “the most fragile in the face of Covid.”

The top official at the Health Ministry said Friday the potential reimposition of a nationwide lockdown was still on the table, after ministers agreed to tighten restrictions in area with high COVID-19 infection rates. “I don’t rule out the possibility that a full lockdown will be decided on, but again, a full lockdown is something that all of us want to avoid,” Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy told Kan public radio. “If there’s no choice, we’ll be there.” He cautioned, however, that while a total lockdown may be the quickest way to curb the coronavirus’s spread, there is “no magic wand” that can swiftly bring the infection rate down. “Therefore we’re trying to find a way in which we’ll do restrictions in a differential manner in cities that have the most extensive morbidity,” he said, pledging assistance to residents of these areas. Levy’s comments came as the Health Ministry reported 2,766 new coronavirus cases were confirmed on Thursday, a day after Israel recorded over 3,000 cases in a new single day record. According to the latest Health Ministry figures, there have been 125,755 infections since the pandemic began, with 25,277 active cases as of Friday morning. With six fatalities overnight, the death toll rose to 991. Of those currently infected, 416 people were in serious condition, with 123 Israelis on ventilators. Another 131 people were in moderate condition and the rest had mild or no symptoms. The Health Ministry said 34,586 tests for coronavirus were administered Thursday. In the interview, Levy was also asked about the ongoing mass protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his indictment on corruption charges and handling of the pandemic.

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on August 29, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Some of Netanyahu’s political allies have said the demonstrations are a serious health risk and called for them to be restricted, but no data has signalled they are a major source of infection and US researchers have indicated protests outdoors may be relatively safe. “There is no data in the [epidemiological] investigations that someone was infected in the gathering itself because you are questioning people who have done a lot of activities, but the protests are a gathering that spurs infection,” Levy said. Levy’s boss, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, signaled support Thursday for restricting the protests. “The coronavirus doesn’t have political views. When a religious person is restricted at prayer or at synagogues, which is a fundamental right, it wouldn’t hurt to restrict political gatherings,” he told Channel 12 news. Just because there is no law limiting protests, Edelstein said there’s no “obligation” for thousands of people to gather for demonstrations. Edelstein also said he fully backs coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu, who has faced criticism from some members of Netanyahu’s Likud party and ultra-Orthodox lawmakers, including calls for his resignation. On Friday, Gamzu clarified that the sweeping new restrictions approved Thursday by the so-called coronavirus cabinet in “red” localities with high infection rates would not include full lockdown measures in all these areas. “The proposal yesterday in the cabinet was for the imposition of a lockdown in eight cities with particularly high morbidity and the imposition of restrictions on movement in the rest of the red cities,” he said in a statement quoted by Channel l2 news. However, he stressed the lockdown measures could be expanded to other areas and said a final decision would be made over the weekend and approved by ministers on Sunday. The new restrictions are set to take effect on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not want another national lockdown but that new restrictions may be needed because the country was facing an “inevitable” second wave of COVID-19. Ministers were on Friday reported to be considering a second national lockdown, after new COVID-19 cases almost doubled to 6,000 per day, hospital admissions rose and infection rates soared across parts of northern England and London. That rise in cases was part of a second wave that was now unstoppable, the prime minister said. “We are now seeing a second wave coming in…It is absolutely, I’m afraid, inevitable, that we will see it in this country,” Johnson told UK media. Asked about whether the whole of the country should brace for a new lockdown, rather than just local restrictions, he said: “I don’t want to get into a second national lockdown at all.” But he did not rule out further national restrictions being brought in. “When you look at what is happening, you’ve got to wonder whether we need to go further than the rule of six that we brought in on Monday,” he said, referring to the ban on gatherings of more than six people. The United Kingdom has reported the fifth largest number of deaths from COVID-19 in the world, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. The UK’s official number of new positive cases shot up by nearly a thousand on Friday to 4,322, the highest since May 8, after a separate ONS model pointed to about 6,000 new cases a day in England in the week to Sept. 10. Nick Note: I have a LOT of contacts out of England. And for a fact they should be in another lock down. Its political and among the savages killing people should not interfere in their businesses.

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