With a fever that soared to a mind-numbing 103 degrees and a chest rattling with acute bronchitis, Kathryn Clover’s co-worker was in no shape to fly from Buenos Aires to Miami recently. But she boarded the plane, anyway.“She passed out on the first flight,” remembers Clover, an operations manager for a nonprofit organization in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “She was absolutely miserable for the long trip back. And I, in turn, was miserable because I was taking care of her and she was coughing on me — and our surrounding passengers — for 15 hours.”
Why would anyone get on an aircraft while in the throes of a contagious, debilitating viral infection?
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