Stats in the SF Bay Area generally down a bit last week. Community level radically down in LA County, dropped from 70 to 28.
Freaky random stats from the CDC spreadsheet:
The highest community level recorded was 13017.75 per 100K in Loring County, Texas, in the report for the first week of July, 2022.
The highest hospital admissions per 100K was 185.3 in Washington County, Kansas, in the report for the first week of March 2023 (i.e. last month)
The highest share of hospital beds occupied by Covid patients was 36% in Cherokee County, North Carolina, in the report for the third week of February 2022 (the farthest back the spreadsheet goes).
We’re flying internationally in a few weeks and at the very least we’ll wear masks in airports and while standing/walking in airplanes. I’ll be curious to see how many of our fellow travelers will be doing this.
Airplanes are one of the best places to get infected. An infectious person can infect people several rows away. I’d wear a mask the whole time on a plane.
More room doesn’t matter if there’s an infectious person nearby and the ventilation system is drawing their exhaled viruses past you for the duration of the flight.
Almost all the people I know who’ve had Covid in the past year got it after flying.
Uh, no, they know they got Covid after flying. They don’t know for sure they got it on the plane, but in most cases that was the only recent time they’d been in close quarters with strangers, and the friends or family they were visiting didn’t get it.
You also seem to think that it’s more important to wear a mask walking around the airport or plane than when in yoor seat, so you’re clearly not up to date on the relative risks.
Some newer research indicates that proximity in the airplane seems to play a key role and that outside of 2 meters away from the infected person you risk of getting infected decreases quite significantly - the air is circulated along the circumference of the cylindrical plane, not lengthwise. This means that the air you breathe is mainly shared between those in your row and those directly near you.
