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COVID-19 isolation and containment strategies for ships: Lessons from the USS Theodore Roosevelt outbreak
2020-11-07
Abstract excerpt
The control of shipborne disease outbreaks represents a vexing but entirely predictable challenge at the start of any pandemic. Passenger ships, with large numbers of people confined in close quarters, can serve as incubators of disease, seeding the pandemic across the globe as infected passengers return home. Short-term steps taken by local authorities can exacerbate this problem, creating humanitarian crises and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d5dcaada-2fa6-5310-94bb-997a5c120fc1
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.11.05.20226712