United Airlines is working with health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help contact passengers who died after suffering a “medical emergency” during a flight this week, and Covid-1 exposed Came in contact with passengers. The airlines said in a statement.
The incident happened during a Los Angeles flight from Land Relando on Monday. The flight was diverted to New Orleans when a man on the plane fell ill. The male passenger was taken by paramedics to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to United Airlines.
“Everything didn’t feel so intense and real,” Shaw Allen, a passenger on the flight, told NBC Los Angeles. Ellen said she saw the man aboard the plane with his head down and breathing heavily. Less than 20 minutes into the flight, a nurse and emergency medical technician began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on them, according to Ellen. That and Other passengers Suggested they listened to the man’s wife and said she was experiencing symptoms similar to covid.
“At the time of the diversion, we were informed that he had a cardiac arrest, so passengers were given the option to take the next flight or continue their travel plans.” “Now that the CDC has contacted us directly, we are sharing the requested information with the agency so that they can work with local health officials to reach out to any customer, the CDC believes there may be a risk of potential infection or infection. “
The male passenger filled out the required checklist before the flight, saying he had not tested positive for the cove and had no symptoms. But it is clear that he “wrongly accepted this requirement,” the airline said.
The CDC said in a statement that it was “in the process of collecting information and proceeding in accordance with our standard operating operating procedures to determine whether further action on public information is appropriate.” The agency does not provide any information about the deceased passengers “to protect the privacy of the person.”
Allen said he is satisfactory at home in California as required by the state. As of Friday, she had not been contacted by health officials, NBC Los Angeles reports.
Taylor Garland, a spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Flight Attendants, told NBC Los Angeles that after the plane landed in Los Angeles, the four flight attendants working on the flight were also separated for 14 days.
“Our union continues to provide assistance to the crew,” Garland said. “We urge passengers to follow the airline’s COW policies and stay home if you are ill.”
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