Recent studies are shocking many in their claims that you are safer form COVID on an airplane than almost anywhere else. This is shocking because the original thought was that planes would be the most dangerous space in a pandemic. The original thought had to do with planes being confined and the idea that ‘everybody breathes the same air.’ However this could not be further from the truth. Since airplanes have a many forms of air circulation and ventilation the air that is being taken in by people is actually fresher and cleaner than any air on the ground. As for the spread of COVID when it comes to surfaces and touch, that is a different story, but at least we now know plane air is clean!

 

 

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