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Evaluating the risks: is it safer for key workers to travel by car, than by train?

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Exceedingly small, I'm sure.
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Well as stated above a survey that all the railway magazines are quoting estimates the odds of catching COVID on an average train journey as 1 in 18,000. If we assume a death rate of 1%, then there's your answer:

1 in 1,800,000
 
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Djgr said:
Well as stated above a survey that all the railway magazines are quoting estimates the odds of catching COVID on an average train journey as 1 in 18,000. If we assume a death rate of 1%, then there's your answer:

1 in 1,800,000
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Most estimates of the IFR suggest the true figure is about half that (and these estimates are falling quite quickly). Though of course it will depend on age, health conditions, and so on.
 
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