Airports In Florida, Flights Safer ?

Are Airports safe, Does Airports Resume All Flights ?

The world is connected by flight paths defying distance to bridge gaps between continents and people, but planes also made it possible for viruses to travel faster than ever before that turned a local outbreak into a global pandemic.

The airline industry was knocked out of the sky, around 90% of flights canceled globally some airlines couldn't survive things are slowly taking off again but the future of aviation looks very different.

Health screening has become as important as security screening ,social distancing in once crowded Airport terminals and on board may be the new normal, but how will the new normal ensure protection from a deadly virus, that hasn't gone away 

Welcome to my covid 19 special @ yogikhongsai.com I'm Yogi Khongsai in hyderabad and the last time, I traveled by plane was in March when the started to spread in Germany and planes were soon grounded .

While now restrictions are being lifted and people are slowly taking to the skies again, but is it safe birds chirping at the largest Airport an unusual silence where thirteen hundred flights used to take off and over two hundred thousand passengers transit each day.

We saw a 98 percent fall in passenger numbers since the lockdown measures began to be eased, we felt things moving a bit last week we had an average of around 10,000 passengers per day which is about 20 percent more than the previous week,

It's much less than last year, but we see an increase and some movement on the passenger side in China where the pandemic first broke out, the low point was mid February with only 23 percent of the normal flights.

That is now stabilized at around 60 percent compared to the previous year, but the industry fears passenger numbers will never reach the same levels of passengers, need a good reason to travel at the moment we expect new measures from the government starting June the 15^th.

We now have passenger restrictions until that date and we expect a resumption of flights in the Schengen area on the 15^th, but before that happens passengers have to feel safe, it would take years to equip aircraft with new seating plans and may never happen given the air carriers tight budgets. 

For the time being travelers will need to bring a lot more patients with them, in Delhi baggage is disinfected outside the terminal, all passengers are checked for a temperature negative.

Corona tests could be added to the list for passengers boarding in some countries, seating on the flight is socially distanced, the flight attendants uniforms are also different so experience wise to just sum it up.

If you ask me this, is yes it is overall different because we are not used to coming to work like this and the job isn't over once the flight lands, this cleaning team in Delhi has to completely disinfect the aircraft, so is the coronavirus the kiss of death for air traveling or can we reduce the risks of catching a dangerous disease.

let's bring in the review and findings of a Professor from the department of computer science from a University, he is the principal investigator of new research on pedestrian dynamics models.

That has recently been used in the analysis of procedures to reduce the risk of disease spread in airplanes in terms of health, how risky is it to fly well if you look at one specific flight or one specific individual.

On a particular flight the risk of infection is not very high, however considering there are so many travelers and so many flights, it's inevitable at some time or the other that'll be a major outbreak on the flights.

Similar thing happen in SARS also, so there are most of the flights known, in fact with anyone else but there are a few flights where a lot of people got infected, so so the risk of getting infected on a plane isn't higher than let's say are on a train or any room that is closed.

I don't want to give exact numbers because in a new outbreak, it's always very difficult to predict what's going to exactly happen but because of a large number of flights, you have a high probability of some outbreak or that are happening over the whole system, all right well let's take a closer look at this SARS co2 virus.

One way to reduce the risk of catching the virus is social distancing, that is pretty impossible on a plane isn't it, well social distancing for example they're acting up talking about the six feet threshold, however if you are much closer the probability of infection is much higher.

Sometimes you can catch it even if your further away ,so do certain things for example some airlines removing the people in the middle seat, so that increases social distancing a bit.

If you look at the passenger, you know they can when boarding they can actually try to maintain distance for example, if you bought lost you can try to maintain distance at the previous person and you have some control over what happens.

If everybdy boards last then the plane will never take off and leaving out the middle seat is is obviously not very cost-effective for the airlines, you did a lot of research certainly in the way that humans behave in sort of narrow passageways and you used Frontera.

Which is one of the world's most powerful supercomputers how did this computer helped with the simulations and what were the findings,well one of the observations is that human behavior is very hard to predict.

So if you look at one particular simulation or two three simulations and try to see what will humans do, you may probably not going to capture all possibilities,especially major infection outbreak an extreme event.

So to capture that you need to look at all possible ways in which humans actually behave ,so we have to do the simulation we did millions of simulations, so that takes a lot of computation effort.

So that is the reason we had to use a supercomputer because we want to look at extreme events where some unlikely situation leads to a major infection outbreak, now given that a lot of people are starting to fly again because planes are no longer grounded.

Its stated already that it's a good idea to be the last on board that might not always be possible, anything else we should bear in mind is there a particular safe seat or row especially when we think of air ventilation, droplets that carry viruses and them floating around.

Well theoretical models suggest that sitting in the aisle seat is most dangerous because first you're close to people who are actually walking in the aisle and second the air circulation most of the planes takes the Earth from the window side into the aisle side.

In some planes it differs, but on the whole it tends to move the air towards the person on the aisle which increase the infection probability, please go well in fat outbreak though one of the major outbreaks actually was spread between aisle window and the middle seat.

So it's not guaranteed that if you sit in the aisle, you are going to have a higher probability and if you're in the window you'll have a lower probability, however it has some modeling support and some common sense.

Window would be a little safer than dying, all right now you know what should you book next.

When we have a vaccine how can we provide enough shots to inoculate everyone, is there a plan to coordinate efforts around the globe, there are now over 120 different Covid 19 vaccine candidates and studies are going on around the world.

Conclution

Based on a range of technologies some developers are so confident of success that they're already making plans for large-scale production, the most likely scenario is that we'll need more than one successful vaccine to meet global demand and it could be that different demographics like children or the elderly respond better or worse to particular vaccines.

So the shotgun approach is actually being taken as a positive thing in late April, the w-h-o launched an international initiative called the access to Covid 19 tools accelerator, it's aimed at coordinating global efforts and and ensuring equal access to any drugs or vaccines that are developed.

But in several key countries have not come out in support of it, is there a difference between PCR tests and iliza tests, a PCR or polymerase chain reaction test is a method for multiplying and tagging small amounts of genetic material like RNA from a swab sample taken.

For example from our nose or our throat, PCR is the primary method used to determine the presence of Covid, so whether someone has an active Covid 19 infection, ELISA which stands for enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.

A serological tests is a blood test for detecting antibodies made by your immune system in response to the virus and they take awhile for the body to produce, so PCR tests tell you if you're currently infected.

While ELISA tells you if you might have had the disease already at some point in the past, how come our experience with pandemics like SARS Ebola and HIV didn't help us stop Covid 19 right away.

Since the SARS epidemic, we've had over 15 years to prepare for another fast spreading deadly new respiratory illness caused by a corona virus, many experts said over and over that a disease like Covid 19 was inevitable that it wasn't a question of if it would happen.

But when and what did we do to prepare, not much the most you can say is that we didn't have to start completely from scratch because a few labs did pursue coronavirus research during the last decade and a half, especially after the advent of MERS.

But the pharmaceuticals industry largely lost interest and that's mostly down to the fact that there just isn't a lot of money to be made in preparation or preventive measures that's all Covid 19 special.

Thanks for being in and before you go, a helpful reminder for those of you planning to board a plane soon again, be sure to bring wipes with you to disinfect surfaces, plastics zip, bags, for personal items like your ID card and wash your hands as often as possible stay in your seat and wear a mask and in either case have a safe flight