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- Data scientists traveled across the US on 10 transcontinental flights to investigate your risk of getting sick on a plane.
- They found that the people in the row directly in front of and behind an ill person are most likely to get sick.
- But your likelihood of catching another passenger’s illness drops outside the 3-row zone, or if you pick a window seat.
- There are still plenty of other ways to catch someone’s flu, cough, or cold while you’re traveling.
Passengers who are stuck sitting next to, in front of, or behind a sick person on a plane: beware. There’s a pretty good chance you’ll catch their cough, cold, or flu.
That’s the finding of a new study, which was funded by Boeing and conducted by in-flight data scientists from Emory University and Georgia Tech. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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