Persistence of US measles risk due to vaccine hesitancy and outbreaks abroad

Affiliations

¹ Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. Electronic address: l.gardner@jhu.edu.
² Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
³ St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; BlueDot, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Philosophy and Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.

Lauren Gardner et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;20(10):1114-1115.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30522-3. Epub 2020 Jul 30.

¹ Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. Electronic address: l.gardner@jhu.edu.
² Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
³ St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; BlueDot, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Philosophy and Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.

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