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

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, dis...

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Published in:Journal of Travel Medicine
Main Authors: Benenson, Shmuel, Ottolenghi, Miriam, Cohen, Matan J, Nir-Paz, Ran, Oster, Yonatan
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2021
Subjects:
Research Letter
Iceland
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8522358/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34581403
https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taab157
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Summary: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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