High attack rate of COVID-19 in an organized tour group of vaccinated travellers to Iceland | Zendy

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High attack rate of COVID-19 in an organized tour group of vaccinated travellers to Iceland

Author(s) -

Shmuel Benenson,

Miriam Ottolenghi,

Matan J. Cohen,

Ran NirPaz,

Yonatan Oster

Publication year - 2021

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/taab157

Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , attack rate , covid-19 , virology , masking (illustration) , infection rate , social distance , surgery , infectious disease (medical specialty) , art , disease , visual arts

In a COVID-19 outbreak in a group of 25 twice-vaccinated Israeli travellers, the attack rate was 84%, despite negative preflight polymerase chain reaction tests. This extremely high breakthrough infection rate is attributed mainly to close and prolonged exposures during long bus drives. Masking, distancing and personal responsibility are required to avoid such outbreaks.

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