Has the effectiveness of Australias travel bans against China on the importation of COVID-19 been overestimated?

Angus McLure; Colleen Lau; Luis Furuya Kanamori

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa191.

Has the effectiveness of Australias travel bans against China on the importation of COVID-19 been overestimated?

Angus McLure, Colleen Lau, Luis Furuya Kanamori

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Abstract

In our re-analysis with adjusted assumptions, we found that a previous study substantially oversestimated the effectiveness of Australias complete travel ban against China in the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into Australia.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Travel Medicine
Volume	28
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taaa191.
Publication status	Published - 2020

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