United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 international routes

Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by kmlx on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:40AM (#24048909)

testing is 70% accurate. incubation period is long.

as such, visitors should: 1. take a test when they land 2. quarantine 3. take another test

that's how some countries have approached this "test at the airport" strategy.

basically provide negative results over a set period of quarantine, as i read it.

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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by borland on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:58PM (#24056157)

The policy here in New Zealand is that ALL travelers must quarantine in a managed facility for 14 days after arrival.

COVID tests on day 3 and day 12.

Reports have indicated that a fair number of people appear symptom free, but then test positive on day 3.

Of the people that test negative on day 3, some then later test positive on day 12. I'd imagine this percentage would be even higher if they did the first test on day 1

Goes to show that if we just did a single test we'd be allowing enough COVID positive people through the gates to re-ignite the pandemic. You need multiple tests over a time period

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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by fyfy18 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:14AM (#24050170)

This is how it is in my country now. Previously it was recommended to quarantine yourself when travelling from certain countries (US included), but was not mandatory. They changed that two weeks ago after an asymptomatic traveller from the US spend the weekend partying at various bars the whole weekend, then came down with symptoms the following week.

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