A UCSF doctor, coming home after several weeks in New York City helping coronavirus patients, shared his shocking experience of traveling on a packed flight back to SFO.
Tweets from cardiologist Ethan Weiss went viral Saturday after the doctor posted a photo of a full United flight.
"I guess @united is relaxing their social distancing policy these days?" he wrote. "Every seat full on this 737."
On April 22, United announced it was "limiting seat selections in all cabins, so customers won’t be able to select seats next to each other or middle seats where available." However, the airline later clarified this does not mean all passengers will have an empty seat beside them; due to load factors or passenger requests, it's possible the flight could be full — as it appeared to be on Weiss' Newark-to-SFO trip.