By CAROL E. LEE &AMIE PARNES,Politico
Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would not recommend taking any commercial flight or riding in a subway car “at this point” because swine flu virus can spread “in confined places.” A little more than one hour later,Biden rushed out a statement backing off.
“I would tell members of my family — and I have — I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden said on NBC’s “Today” show.. “It’s not that it’s going to Mexico. It’s [that] you’re in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes,it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. …
“So,from my perspective,what it relates to is mitigation. If you’re out in the middle of a field when someone sneezes,that’s one thing. If you’re in a closed aircraft or closed container or closed car or closed classroom,it’s a different thing.”