Airlines have loudly insisted that it's safe to fly during the coronavirus pandemic, and U.S. travel is surging before the Thanksgiving holiday despite a nationwide spike in virus cases.
Yet top U.S. infectious-disease experts say the findings underpinning the carriers' safety claims aren't that conclusive.
Concerned about the "misinterpretation" of their findings, researchers on a Defense Department study that has been widely cited by the industry added a cautionary revision. A senior expert in travel-health issues declined to participate in an airline trade group's news conference, citing what he called their "bad math."
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