{"id":46821,"date":"2020-03-10T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=46821"},"modified":"2020-03-12T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T20:20:40","slug":"tom-jefferson-covidair-flight-19-from-rome-to-oxford-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/03\/10\/tom-jefferson-covidair-flight-19-from-rome-to-oxford-and-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Jefferson: Covidair flight 19 from Rome to Oxford and back again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antonio (not his real name) sits in the departure hall in Rome Fiumicino airport. He is one of those guys who wrap your luggage up in plastic. He initially complains about the cancellation of football matches, then of lack of business, until finally we get down to the real issue. The lockdown of the economic powerhouse of Lombardy, Italy, is going to hit us hard and tourism will take a long time to recover from the \u201cplague capital of Europe\u201d image. I breeze through security and passport control in the semi-deserted terminal. No additional checks, no questions asked. At the bar I catch a conversation among airport workers. The mood is changing from one of incredulity and puzzlement to one of anger. Anger at what they see as overreaction and victimisation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Dept-Term-4-March.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-46825\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Dept-Term-4-March-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Dept-Term-4-March-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Dept-Term-4-March-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Dept-Term-4-March-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Dept-Term-4-March-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Dept-Term-4-March-640x1138.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Dept-Term-4-March.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>The aircraft is half empty too: out of 208 seats only 110 are occupied\u2014an unheard of occurrence on this usually very busy flight from Rome to London. Once I explain what I do for a living the stewardesses ask me the usual: how is this different from garden variety influenza-like illness (which they call \u201cthe flu\u201d, the F word I never use)? By now I have become an expert at evading the question, as I do not know the answer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/Heathrow-T5-7-March-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46824\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/Heathrow-T5-7-March-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/Heathrow-T5-7-March-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/Heathrow-T5-7-March-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/Heathrow-T5-7-March-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/Heathrow-T5-7-March-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/Heathrow-T5-7-March-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/Heathrow-T5-7-March-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">When we get to Heathrow I breeze through arrivals, again no questions asked. Just before taking off from Rome I check that I could have got a flight from Milan, to Fiumicino (Rome) and then onto Heathrow. I could have<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u2014and it\u2019s cheap (about 36 Euros). Airlines must be getting desperate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I could have arrived in Heathrow from Milan without any checks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I get to Oxford I meet up with my colleagues, a mixture of serious evidence based medicine academics. None of us has an answer to the question of what is different this time with this pandemic. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three days later I am on my journey back: 39 people in 180 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-arrivals-7-March-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46826\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-arrivals-7-March-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-arrivals-7-March-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-arrivals-7-March-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-arrivals-7-March-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-arrivals-7-March-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-arrivals-7-March-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-arrivals-7-March-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Arrivals-Notice-7-March-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46827\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Arrivals-Notice-7-March-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Arrivals-Notice-7-March-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Arrivals-Notice-7-March-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Arrivals-Notice-7-March-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Arrivals-Notice-7-March-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Arrivals-Notice-7-March-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/03\/FCO-Arrivals-Notice-7-March-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>On arrival at Fiumicino we are greeted by a bilingual sign manned by a member of the army and two healthcare workers all in masks and red cross suits. They are there apparently waiting for any of us to tell them whether we are from a WHO-declared risk zone. I am struck by the hands down and honest approach, but in these cases I am not sure whether relying on other folk\u2019s honesty (with a prospect of 14 day quarantine) is a good idea. Further on in the deserted Terminal 3 there is a hand sanitizer dispenser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While I was away the situation has evolved and perceptions have changed. Travel restrictions, schools and public places closures have been imposed on the whole country. Italy is in lockdown. There have been runs of supermarkets and toilet paper and disinfectants are at a premium. Antonio is nowhere to be seen, perhaps he has packed up for the duration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Tom Jefferson<\/strong> is an an epidemiologist and Cochrane researcher, based in Rome, Italy.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Competing interests<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/restoringtrials.org\/competing-interests-tom-jefferson\/\">Please see full statement here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio (not his real name) sits in the departure hall in Rome Fiumicino airport. He is one of those guys who wrap your luggage up in plastic. 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