National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he does not see an end to the need to wear masks on airplanes.
Guest host Jon Karl said, “I also wanted to ask you about what the airline executive said this week about masks on airplanes. Several of the top, you know, CEOs of the top airlines said that on an airplane, you are actually safer than you are in an ICU, the protection with the filtration system they have. They were suggesting there really isn’t much of a need for a mask on an airplane. Are we going to get to the point where we won’t have to wear masks on airplanes?
Fauci said, “I don’t think so. I think when you’re dealing with a closed space, even though the filtration is good, that you want to go that extra step. When you have people, you know, you get a flight from Washington to San Francisco. It’s well over a five-hour flight, so even though you have a good filtration system, I still believe that masks are a prudent thing to do, and we should be doing it.”
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