What you should know about the risks of cabs or rideshare services amid the pandemic.
Indeed, hundreds of Americans are still dying from the disease each day, with per-day death counts even rising above 1,000 as recently as early June. The risk is also not spread evenly, as transmission rates and new cases show increases and decreases in different states.
“I would say the safest mode of transportation at this time would be taking your own personal car by yourself since in this situation you would not be exposing yourself to anyone else,” said, an infectious diseases physician and biosecurity fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “The next best situation would be to have someone you know drive you since you would be in regular contact with them. I would say the next safest scenario would be to take a taxi, Uber or Lyft.
You should also consider whether you have safer options for transportation, like driving yourself or asking someone in your circle to drive you. Delgado echoed this sentiment, suggesting that people research local coronavirus activity where they live. He recommended the University of Chicago’s“I would consider counties with zero new cases as lower risk, those with under 10-20 new cases per day as medium risk, and those with more than that as higher risk with lots of new cases per day,” he said. “For example, Phoenix, Arizona, is seeing around 800 new cases per day right now, which is concerning.
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