Michael Osterholm
michael osterholm, American Airlines suspended L.A. flights to and from Shanghai and Beijing. The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents 15,000 pilots for American Airlines filed a lawsuit to halt service with the airline, citing “serious, and in many ways still unknown, health threats posed by the coronavirus. I am directing all APA pilots to cease flight operations between the United States and China, said APA president Eric Ferguson. Until further notice, if you are scheduled, assigned, or reassigned a pairing into China, decline the assignment by calling your Chief Pilot or IOC Duty Pilot. Inform them you are declining in accordance with the CDC and WHO declarations.
michael osterholm - AMERICAN AIRLINES SUED OVER CORONAVIRUS BY PLOT SEEKING TO CANCEL US-CHINA FLIGHTS Delta airlines reducing flights to China from 42 per week to 21 per week British Airways suspended all flights to and from mainland China. Virgin Atlantic suspending operations to Shanghai for two weeks Lufthansa suspending flights to and from China until Feb. 9 Air India and Seoul Air halting all flights to the country. Egypt Air suspending all fights starting Feb. 1 Air France suspending all flights until Feb. 9
michael osterholm, Finnair, Cathay Pacific, and Jetstar also stopping service. Lion Air canceled 50 flights to China into February. Air Canada suspending all direct flights to Beijing and Shanghai. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FOX HEALTH NEWSLETTER Kenya Airways suspends all flights to China The Associated Press contributed to the report
michael osterholm - The coronavirus patient is the husband of a Chicago traveler who became ill shortly after returning from Wuhan, China; Jonathan Serrie reports. Thousands of people aboard the Costa Smeralda cruise ship are being given the OK to disembark after Italian authorities confirmed that a sick passenger tested negative for the coronavirus. The ship, which was carrying around 5,023 passengers and 1,628 crew members, was being held in a port at Civitavecchia, Italy, after a passenger from Macau, China, began exhibiting flu-like symptoms on Wednesday. Smeralda passengers had been prohibited from disembarking until the results of the woman’s tests came back.
michael osterholm - CRUISE LINES CONTINUE TO CANCEL DEPARTURES FROM CHINA AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK According to The Telegraph, if the woman indeed had tested positive for the coronavirus, passengers and crew may have been quarantined for two weeks aboard the ship. Passengers are seen exiting the port it Civitavecchia early on Jan. 31 after Italy's Ministry of Health confirmed the sick passenger tested negative for the coronavirus. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images) A laboratory at Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases later confirmed the woman had tested negative for the coronavirus, or 2019-nCov, in a news release issued by Italy’s Minister of Health late on Thursday.