“You have to understand, people with superficial DVTs get sent home and do sleep at night and that's sometimes eight hours. He's not in a seat that can't move. If they urged him to move, they had some sort of pulsatile device on his leg, they had compression stockings, blood thinned it a little bit, then the flight is very defensible.”

David Chao · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16

Dr. Chao said the flight would be defensible if the team took precautions such as compression stockings and blood thinners.