Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak

Affiliations

¹ Global Strategy Lab, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada.
² Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁴ University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵ University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Keele University, Keele, UK.
⁷ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁸ O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA.
⁹ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
¹⁰ University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy.
¹¹ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹² Warwick University, Coventry, UK.
¹³ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹⁴ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁵ Global Strategy Lab, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada. Electronic address: steven.hoffman@globalstrategylab.org.

Roojin Habibi et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Feb 29;395(10225):664-666.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30373-1. Epub 2020 Feb 13.

¹ Global Strategy Lab, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada.
² Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁴ University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵ University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Keele University, Keele, UK.
⁷ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁸ O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA.
⁹ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
¹⁰ University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy.
¹¹ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹² Warwick University, Coventry, UK.
¹³ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹⁴ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁵ Global Strategy Lab, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada. Electronic address: steven.hoffman@globalstrategylab.org.

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COVID-19: fighting panic with information.
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Travel restrictions and evidence-based decision making for novel epidemics.
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