[semerda]

Gattaca. I’m curious tho where does it stop. For example, US stopped TB vax long time ago while half of EU continues. Those born in EU bear the scars on their arms from the vax. Sure TB isn’t as prevalent in the US as it used to be but there’s nothing stopping it from coming on a plane.

Bacterial infections of the lungs are very hard to fight esp with the increase of antibiotic resistance. A single cough from a TB infected individual used to be a death sentence to the receiver (prior to antibiotics).

So where does all this start and end. If we are serious about health while traveling then let’s go all in across the germ spectrum and see what happens ;-)

I’d love to see planes reporting on cabin air quality as well. I’m sure I’m not the only one who gets sick (pre Covid) when traveling long haul.

[maxerickson]

It'll probably stop shortly after France achieves a high enough level of vaccination to (more or less) stop community spread.

Based on the UK, Israel and the US, 60% looks like it gets you pretty close to that.

[jonnylynchy]

Which is where we are now apparently, 60%! https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/us-reaches-60-adults-d...

[maxerickson]

Right. The outbreak in Michigan is subsiding even as people are doing less mitigation, for instance.

With ~75 million children in the US, we aren't quite at 60% of the population though. Hopefully the number of vaccinated goes up quite a bit more.

[admissionsguy]

Yup, even Denmark has recently announced plans to phase out the vaccine pass in a matter of months.

[tomjen3]

Yes, but it is going to phased out when everybody who wants to has had the shot, not when the most vulnerable has had it, over we get over 60%.