{"id":8697,"date":"2020-08-03T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:52:06","slug":"strategies-to-reduce-the-risk-of-sars-cov-2-re-introduction-from-international-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/strategies-to-reduce-the-risk-of-sars-cov-2-re-introduction-from-international-travellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies to Reduce the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Re-Introduction from International\u00a0Travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"44\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Preprint<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Clifford et al<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">estimated that a quarantine period of eight days\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for air travelers arriving to the UK\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with a PCR test on day-7 can reduce the number of infectious arrivals released into the community by a median 94% when compared with no quarantine. This reduction is\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">similar to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the 99% median reduction achieved by a 14<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">day quarantine period.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Without quarantine, the current high prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the US would result in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">up to 23 introductions of infectious travelers per week.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Clifford et al. (July 24, 2020). Strategies to Reduce the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Re-Introduction from International\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Travellers<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. Pre-print downloaded Aug 3 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.24.20161281\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.24.20161281<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Clifford et al.\u00a0estimated that a quarantine period of eight days\u00a0for air travelers arriving to the UK\u00a0with a PCR test on day-7 can reduce the number of infectious arrivals released into the community by a median 94% when compared with no quarantine. This reduction is\u00a0similar to\u00a0the 99% median reduction achieved by a 14&#8211;day quarantine&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/strategies-to-reduce-the-risk-of-sars-cov-2-re-introduction-from-international-travellers\/\">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-8697","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\/8697","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=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}