CDC flags 1600 flights where person on board may have had COVID-19

Thousands of people may have been exposed to the coronavirus on commercial flights this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement on Wednesday.The CDC told CNN that it knows of 1,600 flights in the first eight months of the year where a person who may have had the virus was present. Up to 10,900 people may have been within the six-foot transmission range of that person during these flights, according to the…