You can still catch COVID-19 in this place that experts are calling safe

[Andy Meek]

• A new study that analyzes the risk of coronavirus transmission on commercial airplane flights should offer a dose of good news to travelers eager to take to the skies again.
• The US Department of Defense report finds that the risk of COVID-19 exposure during a flight is highly unlikely -- not impossible, but very rare.
• This comes as, on the ground at least, the US continues to set new records in terms of daily coronavirus case numbers.

In recent days, the TSA reported having just screened a record number of passengers in the nation's airports -- 6.1 million, to be exact, for the week of October 12-18. That's the biggest stream of travelers who've flowed through TSA checkpoints around the country since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which would seem to suggest that passengers are increasingly less fearful about the prospect of coronavirus transmission on a commercial airplane flight.

That stands in contrast to, well, how things are on the ground. The deeper we get into the final quarter of 2020, the worse the pandemic seems to get -- in fact, the US just surpassed 70,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day, a record not seen since back in July. But back to the issue of air travel. Just how safe are airplanes, really, and is it even safe to travel right now?

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