{"id":6755,"date":"2020-05-11T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:16:40","slug":"effectiveness-of-interventions-targeting-air-travellers-for-delaying-local-outbreaks-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/effectiveness-of-interventions-targeting-air-travellers-for-delaying-local-outbreaks-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Effectiveness of interventions targeting air\u00a0travellers\u00a0for delaying local outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This study evaluated\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">whether<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0interventions aimed at air travelers can delay local SARS-CoV-2 community transmission in a previously unaffected country. Results from stochastic simulation showed that introducing exit and entry screening for SARS-CoV-2 at departure and\/or arrival<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in combination with traveler sensitization<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0about COVID-19 symptoms,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0can delay a local outbreak by 8\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">days<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(50% interval: 3-14 days). The additional benefit of entry screening is small if exit screening is effective: the combination of exit screening and traveler sensitization can delay an outbreak by 7 days (50% interval: 2-13 days).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Syndromic screening and traveler sensitization in combination may have marginally delayed SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in unaffected countries<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Clifford et al. (May 8, 2020). Effectiveness of interventions targeting air\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">travellers<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0for delaying local outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2. Journal of\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">T<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">ravel\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">M<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">edicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jtm\/taaa068\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jtm\/taaa068<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study evaluated\u00a0whether\u00a0interventions aimed at air travelers can delay local SARS-CoV-2 community transmission in a previously unaffected country. Results from stochastic simulation showed that introducing exit and entry screening for SARS-CoV-2 at departure and\/or arrival,\u00a0in combination with traveler sensitization\u00a0about COVID-19 symptoms,\u00a0can delay a local outbreak by 8\u00a0days\u00a0(50% interval: 3-14 days). The additional benefit of entry&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/effectiveness-of-interventions-targeting-air-travellers-for-delaying-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":[22],"class_list":["post-6755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755","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=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6756,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}