No time for dilemma: mass gatherings must be suspended

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. 2020 Apr 11;395(10231):1191-1192.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30754-6. Epub 2020 Mar 30.

No time for dilemma: mass gatherings must be suspended

Ziad A Memish¹, Qanta A Ahmed², Patricia Schlagenhauf³, Seydou Doumbia⁴, Anas Khan⁵

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¹ Research & Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health and College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 12746, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, NYU-Winthrop, NYU Langone, Mineola, NY, USA.
³ University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Department of Public and Global Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Odontostomatology, University Clinical Research Center, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, Mali.
⁵ Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30754-6

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No time for dilemma: mass gatherings must be suspended

Ziad A Memish et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 11;395(10231):1191-1192.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30754-6. Epub 2020 Mar 30.

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Ziad A Memish¹, Qanta A Ahmed², Patricia Schlagenhauf³, Seydou Doumbia⁴, Anas Khan⁵

Affiliations

¹ Research & Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health and College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 12746, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, NYU-Winthrop, NYU Langone, Mineola, NY, USA.
³ University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Department of Public and Global Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Odontostomatology, University Clinical Research Center, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, Mali.
⁵ Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 32240624
PMCID: PMC7146682
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30754-6

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A risk-based approach is best for decision making on holding mass gathering events.
McCloskey B, Zumla A, Lim PL, Endericks T, Arbon P, Cicero A, Borodina M. McCloskey B, et al. Lancet. 2020 Apr 18;395(10232):1256-1257. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30794-7. Epub 2020 Apr 2. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 32247321 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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Mass gathering events and reducing further global spread of COVID-19: a political and public health dilemma.
McCloskey B, Zumla A, Ippolito G, Blumberg L, Arbon P, Cicero A, Endericks T, Lim PL, Borodina M; WHO Novel Coronavirus-19 Mass Gatherings Expert Group. McCloskey B, et al. Lancet. 2020 Apr 4;395(10230):1096-1099. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30681-4. Epub 2020 Mar 20. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 32203693 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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[1] McCloskey B, Zumla A, Ippolito G. Mass gathering events and reducing further global spread of COVID-19: a political and public health dilemma. Lancet. 2020 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30681. published online March 19. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] McCloskey B, Zumla A, Ippolito G. Mass gathering events and reducing further global spread of COVID-19: a political and public health dilemma. Lancet. 2020 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30681. published online March 19. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Ebrahim SH, Memish ZA. COVID-19 - the role of mass gatherings. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101617. published online March 9. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] Ebrahim SH, Memish ZA. COVID-19 - the role of mass gatherings. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101617. published online March 9. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Bedford J, Enria D, Giesecke J. COVID-19: towards controlling of a pandemic. Lancet. 2020 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30673-5. published online March 17. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[6] Bedford J, Enria D, Giesecke J. COVID-19: towards controlling of a pandemic. Lancet. 2020 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30673-5. published online March 17. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[7] Ebrahim SH, Ahmed QA, Gozzer E, Schlagenhauf P, Memish ZA. Covid-19 and community mitigation strategies in a pandemic. BMJ. 2020;368 - PubMed

[8] Ebrahim SH, Ahmed QA, Gozzer E, Schlagenhauf P, Memish ZA. Covid-19 and community mitigation strategies in a pandemic. BMJ. 2020;368 - PubMed

[9] Carey B. Complacency, not panic, is the real danger. March 19, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/health/coronavirus-panic-anxiety.html...

[10] Carey B. Complacency, not panic, is the real danger. March 19, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/health/coronavirus-panic-anxiety.html...

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