Open AccessHas the effectiveness of Australia’s travel bans against China on the importation of COVID-19 been overestimated?
Author(s) -
Angus McLure,
Colleen L. Lau,
Luis FuruyaKanamori
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of travel medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1708-8305
pISSN - 1195-1982
DOI - 10.1093/jtm/taaa191
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , china , travel medicine , betacoronavirus , air travel , virology , outbreak , geography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , aviation , pathology , archaeology , disease , aerospace engineering , engineering
In our re-analysis with adjusted assumptions, we found that a previous study substantially oversestimated the effectiveness of Australia’s complete travel ban against China in the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into Australia.
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