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7 Critically Needed Capabilities, Research, and Next Steps
Pages 49-54

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... This has been clearly visible in dealing with the COVID pandemic. Cetron called for a better understanding of the relative contributions of different modes of transmission -- airborne transmission, fomites, and others -- and observed that contact tracing, which is a regular epidemiological practice in maintaining public health, is incredibly labor intensive.
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From page 50...
... It is important, Hertzberg concluded, to remember the lessons learned from the COVID pandemic and apply them to other diseases in the future, even to ordinary flu and childhood diseases. Session 3: Aircraft Design and Flight Operations, Personnel, and Performance The panel in session 3, Manning said, examined aircraft design along with flight operations, personnel, and performance, looking for ways in which these areas might change in response to passenger perceptions of the risks associated with air travel during a pandemic.
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From page 51...
... In aviation safety, Lacher continued, data analytics has been the cornerstone of the safety improvements made in aviation over the years. "We spent a lot of time looking at aviation operational data to understand precursors of potential situations that may prove to create a safety risk," he said.
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From page 52...
... Joel Otto, a strategy and business development executive at Collins Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Technologies, was the final presenter of the panel. As Kopardekar reported, Otto spoke about the financial challenges faced by the aviation industry because of the COVID pandemic.
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From page 53...
... Lacher responded that the aviation industry has a track record of doing just that -- sharing aviation safety data but, deidentifying the data in such a way that people's privacy is maintained. Even in the case of pilots reporting an unsafe situation, the industry has ways of maintaining the anonymity of the pilots to improve the safety of air travel without violating the pilot's privacy.
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... Even with touchless technology, people in airports are still crowded close together in places like the security stations or boarding gates, increasing the risk of airborne transmission. He suggested that it would be valuable to develop methods of routing people through the various parts of the airport process in such a way that crowding could be minimized and to maintain social distancing.
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