Are airlines taking additional steps to sanitize airplanes?

They aren’t doing anything new or different. Which means they aren’t doing anything.

I have flow twice in the last week. there was no evidence of any extra cleaning and no odor of Lysol or other type of spray or wipe down.

One is on one’s own when it comes to travelling..

The doctors are still confused as to how the Coronavirus is transmitted, so they are doing nothing until the can figure it out. By then it will be waayyy too late!!!

I don’t know. If I was curious about it I would talk to airlines or read online.

@LadyMarissa You are wrong. The infection pathways of COVID-19 are well known. Here is the scientific information. It is spread the same way any airborne virus is spread.

I work at the Hawaii State Dept. of Health. I do not work in disease outbreaks like this one, but I run the social media account for the division where I work, and we are instructed to post the facts about COVID-19 as they become available from our offices or the CDC.

Can I give @Hawaii_Jake a couple more GA’s.

Truth is a good thing when facing this.

Jake, GA. Can you educate me a little further?
I’ve read by more than one source that the virus is traveling through the water pipes in the buildings in China, so that doesn’t sound airborne to me.

I see on social media, they recommend taking antibacterial wipes on planes and wiping down every single surface that you might come in contact with, in your seating area. Light switches, air switches, air nozzle, food tray, armrests, etc.

I doubt it. I flew two days ago and the crew was cleaning up the plane like usual from what could tell, and they were boarding new passenger less than 20 minutes after landing.

@SEKA What source said it was traveling through water pipes? Was it a reputable source? Please read the source I linked.

@Hawaii_Jake Here’s the CNN article it sounds like a combination of bad plumbing and bad ventilation system.

@Hawaii_Jake Since CNN has been rejected on Fluther because it’s not considered a reliable source, that’s not where I read it. I don’t remember the exact source, but it was probably the BBC, Al Jazeera, the CBC, or Reuters. Thank you @Tropical_Willie for linking the article. The ones that I had seen were reported by the medical doctors & caregivers who were on the front line, but this may be the same building that was reported in the articles that I had read. It wasn’t just one article from one source unless all those listed were receiving their info from the same source. The article said that it had been assumed that the virus was transmitted via airborne, but with the new data, that the doctors were reconsidering that data. Much like @LadyMarissa I was under the impression that there was no definitive determination as to how it travels & that’s why I asked you for further clarification

Well. If someone infected coughs, or sneezes, on a surface it would depend on how long the virus can live outside of a host…

@SEKA Thank you for the clarification. I read the CNN article from @Tropical_Willie. It seems that there is further investigation going on to determine if another means of transmission is also possible: by fecal matter.

I object to the hysteria implicit in the answer by @LadyMarissa. We have facts. With more information, more facts will become apparent. At this time, it is better to stick to the facts as known instead of acting hysterical.

Well. Viruses mutate, at a very fast pace. A strain could end up being transmitted by many different ways.

Update on the virus from the CDC, “Likely to cause a global pandemic” according to top US Health official:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/coronavirus-latest-updates.html