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Emirates Airline Begins Conducting Rapid COVID-19 Tests For Boarding Passengers
In a move that could be a step toward making air travel palatable to the public again, Emirates Airline has begun conducing rapid-on site COVID-19 for passengers. The testing began with passengers on a flight from Dubai to Tunisia on Wednesday. The analysis is a blood test with results within 10 minutes. The airline says it is the first to roll out rapid testing. Emirates says it is working to scale up testing capabilities and extend it to other flights. It says its testing could also be used to… (www.npr.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
At least its a good start naysayers and heaven forbid it may help develop a reliable pin prick instant test. I am happy to do whatever it takes to get the world moving again.
Will be Interesting to know what happens if it’s a positive test
That was also my concern. I'm willing to fly, you don't want to take me and warn me at the last minute, you will have to reimburse me 100%, at least that's the way I see it.
Dear passengers, please present yourself at the airport 6-8 hours before your 4-hour flight.
sadly, a likely scenario
No matter how good these tests become, they can only detect what is in the sample taken. If someone is in the early stages of the disease, viral components may not have permeated their blood stream to the point where those components will show up in the sample taken. These are point in time tests only . They can only state that the person had no detectable infection at the time the sample was taken. They cannot say the person is disease free. Particularly on long flights, it is possible that someone has no detectable infection at the beginning and is severely sick before the flight is over.
To be truly effective, you would have to first test someone and determine that they had no detectable infection, then quarantine them long enough to allow any undetectable infection to manifest, then test them again to check for a detectable infection (without breaking their quarantine).
The issues raised by others about contaminated surfaces remain.
Don't think this can be hidden from the public. They will eventually figure it out, if only when someone mysteriously gets sick despite this testing precaution. If the public is not told the truth up front, there will be a huge deficit of trust that will make it increasingly hard to win back potential customers. Further, if companies like Emirates attempt to plead that they are doing the best that they know how, customers will find that a cold comfort. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Does anyone remember the Tylenol scare from 1982 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders)? That kind of leadership is what companies need to weather this crisis.
To be truly effective, you would have to first test someone and determine that they had no detectable infection, then quarantine them long enough to allow any undetectable infection to manifest, then test them again to check for a detectable infection (without breaking their quarantine).
The issues raised by others about contaminated surfaces remain.
Don't think this can be hidden from the public. They will eventually figure it out, if only when someone mysteriously gets sick despite this testing precaution. If the public is not told the truth up front, there will be a huge deficit of trust that will make it increasingly hard to win back potential customers. Further, if companies like Emirates attempt to plead that they are doing the best that they know how, customers will find that a cold comfort. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Does anyone remember the Tylenol scare from 1982 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders)? That kind of leadership is what companies need to weather this crisis.