pangolin

Anitibody testing. You have antibodies you are free to mingle.

Slaphappy

Na i'm free to mingle whenever I please.

Flying101

You should take your own advice :-)

R57 relay

Biden, is that you?!

Where have you been all my life? If you'd been here a few years ago you could have helped us schmucks figure out the AWA/US seniority list.

AA, please, please lower the early retirement age by a decade!

Nucflash

The “poor man’s” answer to countrywide testing (certainly where airline travel is concerned) is temperature checking. Every passenger at every checkpoint, administered by a federal agency. How many pax would this screen out? Not sure...let’s hope than if an individual is 100-plus they already aren’t feeling well enough to travel and are staying home. But very minimum, it will make healthy customers feel more secure getting on the jets. Why aren’t we ALREADY doing this??

SIUav8er

Why cant it be done on a local level? Even at tue state level would be more appropriate. We dont need the Feds testing the entire population... I dont even think they are capable of such a task.

SIUav8er

Hawaii National Guard is taking every passengers temperature as they get OFF the plane... and they will deny them to exit the airport if they have a fever.

No reason we cant do something like this as passenger enter the airport. A quick temp check at the TSA checkpoints seems easy enough.

daOldMan

Taking temperatures is pointless. You can be infected and contagious more than a week before showing symptoms.

Testing everyone is equally pointless, unless you are doing the antibody test.

Let's say someone goes to the doctor and gets the test, it could likely come back negative. But, as they were waiting to be tested, they were exposed to someone with the virus. A few days later, they become contagious themselves and infect everyone around them, even though they have a certificate that they do not have it.

With the antibody test, it would need be repeated for everyone that comes back negative until they eventually they show positive. It is only a 1-time thing for those that come back positive.

Anti-body testing is the key. But since there are over 30 different strains already and the antibody tests do not take all of these into consideration, those too are pointless.

AirBear

The test that Abbott made gives a positive result in something like 7 min and a negative result in 13 min. I don't know how fast they're cranking out these machines but when they have enough that'll be a huge help. Combine that test with a simple fingerstick test that indicates antibodies. I think some overseas locations are giving "Covid-19 immune" certificates to those with the antibodies.

The Abbott test is being used at the White House, anyone who will be in the same room as the President has to be tested once a week.

THKooj

Thus far the mortality rate is 2%. That rate skyrockets in people with comorbitites. Seeing that vaccine trials have just begun it stands to reason we are 18 months out from a workable solution with vaccines. Following epidemiology 101, further containment to mitigate the spread is warranted but only in specific situations with those more at risk. This all means that the full economic opening will be delayed a bit further. Noting this, some airlines are absolutely going to enter Chapter 11. They will be Sun Country, Frontier, JetBlue and Spirit. The best positioned to come out of this on the other side are AA, DL, UA and WN. In that order. Business travel will absolutely return first and far faster than any VFR or leisure travel which also bodes well for AA with their 8 billion war chest coupled with government funding. It's defintely not the time to be a LCC/ULCC pilot. Those at AA will benefit the most.