Woman dies of Covid-19 on Spirit Airlines flight – but no other passengers are told

A woman died from Covid-19 on a Spirit Airlines flight in July, but none of the other passengers onboard were ever informed about the cause of death. The 38-year-old woman, who has asthma, was travelling from Las Vegas to Dallas on flight 208 on 24 July when she started to have difficulty breathing. She used her inhaler and was given oxygen, to no avail. A flight attendant attempted CPR after the woman had lost consciousness, and passed out herself from the exertion. The plane was diverted to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where medics attempted to revive the woman on the boarding bridge, but she was pronounced dead at the airport. Despite the fact that investigators learned within two days that the woman had tested positive for coronavirus, this information was not fed back to any other passengers, including those who had been sitting near her on the aircraft. Local police and fire departments were informed, but the health department, having received the positive Covid result directly from the lab rather than the Office of the Medical Investigator, did not investigate further or discover that the woman had been on a flight when she died. This meant it failed to launch a tracing process with the CDC. Story has more.<br/>