{"id":4258,"date":"2020-02-13T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:17:23","slug":"interventions-targeting-air-travellers-early-in-the-pandemic-may-delay-local-outbreaks-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/13\/interventions-targeting-air-travellers-early-in-the-pandemic-may-delay-local-outbreaks-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interventions targeting air travellers early in the pandemic may delay local outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clifford et al. examine the effectiveness of air travel-related intervention at preventing 2019-nCoV outbreaks in previously unaffected regions. They examine screening for symptoms at departure or arrival, sensitization of arrivals to signs of illness, and a combination of both practices. This information is combined with R<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> estimates and number of infected travelers arriving on a weekly basis to assess time until a region reaches the \u201coutbreak threshold.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Air traveler-targeted interventions can delay 2019-nCoV outbreaks for weeks and potentially months, when the number of infected travelers remains low. With more infected travelers, the delay in onset of a local outbreak declines rapidly. Combining syndromic screening with traveler sensitization has the greatest potential to effectively delay outbreak onset.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clifford et al. (Feb 13, 2020). Interventions targeting air travellers early in the pandemic may delay local outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2. Pre-print downloaded Feb 13 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.12.20022426v1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.12.20022426v1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clifford et al. examine the effectiveness of air travel-related intervention at preventing 2019-nCoV outbreaks in previously unaffected regions. They examine screening for symptoms at departure or arrival, sensitization of arrivals to signs of illness, and a combination of both practices. This information is combined with R0 estimates and number of infected travelers arriving on a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/13\/interventions-targeting-air-travellers-early-in-the-pandemic-may-delay-local-outbreaks-of-sars-cov-2\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","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=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}