{"id":2389,"date":"2020-11-25T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T17:15:16","slug":"reducing-travel-related-sars-cov-2-transmission-with-layered-mitigation-measures-symptom-monitoring-quarantine-and-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/25\/reducing-travel-related-sars-cov-2-transmission-with-layered-mitigation-measures-symptom-monitoring-quarantine-and-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Travel-Related SARS-CoV-2 Transmission with Layered Mitigation Measures Symptom Monitoring Quarantine and Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print; not peer-reviewed] A model built to assess the relative impact of symptom monitoring, testing, and quarantine practices on transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by infected travelers suggests that quarantining for 14 days almost eliminates risk of transmission. The effectiveness of testing depended on timing and quality of the test, with the combination of a pre-travel test and a post-travel test 2 to 3 days after arrival reducing the risk of transmission by 45 to 70%. When combined with symptom monitoring and testing, a 7-day quarantine after arrival had similar effectiveness in preventing transmission to a 10-day or 14-day quarantine on its own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Johansson et al. (Nov 24, 2020). Reducing Travel-Related SARS-CoV-2 Transmission with Layered Mitigation Measures Symptom Monitoring Quarantine and Testing. Pre-print downloaded Nov. 25 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.23.20237412\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.23.20237412<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print; not peer-reviewed] A model built to assess the relative impact of symptom monitoring, testing, and quarantine practices on transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by infected travelers suggests that quarantining for 14 days almost eliminates risk of transmission. The effectiveness of testing depended on timing and quality of the test, with the combination of a pre-travel test&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/25\/reducing-travel-related-sars-cov-2-transmission-with-layered-mitigation-measures-symptom-monitoring-quarantine-and-testing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37,116],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-travel","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}