{"id":9184,"date":"2020-08-19T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:14:39","slug":"assessment-of-sars-cov-2-transmission-on-an-international-flight-and-among-a-tourist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/19\/assessment-of-sars-cov-2-transmission-on-an-international-flight-and-among-a-tourist-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission on an International Flight and Among a Tourist Group"},"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\">M<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">onitor<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">commercial airline\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">passengers\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">102)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on an international flight<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 24 of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">whom\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were part of a tourist group\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who came in contact with a hotel manager<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">identified<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a02<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0likely SARS-CoV-2 transmissions on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0flight, with 7 index cases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">indicating possible airborne transmission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Both<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0passengers with likely onboard\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">acquisition<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were seated within 2 rows of an index case.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The airflow in the cabin from the ceiling to the floor and from the front to the rear may have been associated with a reduced transmission rate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, though\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">authors hypothesize that the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0have been reduced further had the passengers worn masks<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0on the flight<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hoehl<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 18, 2020). Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission on an International Flight and Among a Tourist Group. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.18044\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.18044<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring\u00a0of\u00a0commercial airline\u00a0passengers\u00a0(n=102)\u00a0on an international flight, 24 of\u00a0whom\u00a0were part of a tourist group\u00a0who came in contact with a hotel manager\u00a0with COVID-19,\u00a0identified\u00a02\u00a0likely SARS-CoV-2 transmissions on\u00a0the\u00a0flight, with 7 index cases,\u00a0indicating possible airborne transmission.\u00a0Both\u00a0passengers with likely onboard\u00a0acquisition\u00a0were seated within 2 rows of an index case.\u00a0The airflow in the cabin from the ceiling to the floor and from the front&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/19\/assessment-of-sars-cov-2-transmission-on-an-international-flight-and-among-a-tourist-group\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","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=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9185,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}