{"id":3955,"date":"2020-01-30T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:46:45","slug":"estimated-effectiveness-of-traveller-screening-to-prevent-international-spread-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/30\/estimated-effectiveness-of-traveller-screening-to-prevent-international-spread-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimated effectiveness of traveller screening to prevent international spread of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers aimed to quantify the effectiveness of traveler screening for 2019-nCoV. Even under ideal screening assumptions, around half of infected travelers are likely to be missed. Most missed cases are asymptomatic, undetectable, and unaware of their exposure. The paper offers helpful visuals to support decision making. An <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lloyd-smithlab.shinyapps.io\/travelScreeningModel\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">interactive Shiny App<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is available as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gostic et al. (Jan 30, 2020). Estimated effectiveness of traveller screening to prevent international spread of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Pre-Print. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.01.28.20019224v1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.01.28.20019224v1<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers aimed to quantify the effectiveness of traveler screening for 2019-nCoV. Even under ideal screening assumptions, around half of infected travelers are likely to be missed. Most missed cases are asymptomatic, undetectable, and unaware of their exposure. The paper offers helpful visuals to support decision making. An interactive Shiny App is available as well.\u00a0 Gostic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/30\/estimated-effectiveness-of-traveller-screening-to-prevent-international-spread-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}