Mass gathering events and reducing further global spread of COVID-19: a political and public health dilemma

Affiliations

¹ Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London SW1Y 4LE, UK. Electronic address: bmccloskey@chathamhouse.org.
² Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
³ National Institute for Infectious Diseases-Lazzaro Spallanzani-IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
⁴ National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁵ Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁶ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁷ Public Health England, London, UK.
⁸ National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁹ Academy of Postgraduate Education, Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, Russia.

Comment

Brian McCloskey et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 4;395(10230):1096-1099.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30681-4. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

¹ Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London SW1Y 4LE, UK. Electronic address: bmccloskey@chathamhouse.org.
² Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
³ National Institute for Infectious Diseases-Lazzaro Spallanzani-IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
⁴ National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁵ Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁶ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁷ Public Health England, London, UK.
⁸ National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁹ Academy of Postgraduate Education, Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, Russia.

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No time for dilemma: mass gatherings must be suspended.
Memish ZA, Ahmed QA, Schlagenhauf P, Doumbia S, Khan A. Memish ZA, et al. Lancet. 2020 Apr 11;395(10231):1191-1192. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30754-6. Epub 2020 Mar 30. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 32240624 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Mass gatherings: implications and opportunities for global health security.
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 2011 Sep 23;86(39):428-35. Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 2011. PMID: 21969942 English, French. No abstract available.

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