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. 2020 Dec 23;27(8):taaa135.
doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa135.

SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence on repatriation flights from Wuhan City, China

Hayley A Thompson  1 , Natsuko Imai  1 , Amy Dighe  1 , Kylie E C Ainslie  1 , Marc Baguelin  1 , Sangeeta Bhatia  1 , Samir Bhatt  1 , Adhiratha Boonyasiri  2 , Olivia Boyd  1 , Nicholas F Brazeau  1 , Lorenzo Cattarino  1 , Laura V Cooper  1 , Helen Coupland  1 , Zulma Cucunuba  1 , Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg  1 , Bimandra Djaafara  1 , Ilaria Dorigatti  1 , Sabine van Elsland  1 , Richard FitzJohn  1 , Han Fu  1 , Katy A M Gaythorpe  1 , Will Green  1 , Timothy Hallett  1 , Arran Hamlet  1 , David Haw  1 , Sarah Hayes  1 , Wes Hinsley  1 , Benjamin Jeffrey  1 , Edward Knock  1 , Daniel J Laydon  1 , John Lees  1 , Tara D Mangal  1 , Thomas Mellan  1 , Swapnil Mishra  1 , Andria Mousa  1 , Gemma Nedjati-Gilani  1 , Pierre Nouvellet  1   3 , Lucy Okell  1 , Kris V Parag  1 , Manon Ragonnet-Cronin  1 , Steven Riley  1 , H Juliette T Unwin  1 , Robert Verity  1 , Michaela Vollmer  1 , Erik Volz  1 , Patrick G T Walker  1 , Caroline Walters  1 , Haowei Wang  1 , Yuanrong Wang  1 , Oliver J Watson  1 , Charles Whittaker  1 , Lilith K Whittles  1 , Peter Winskill  1 , Xiaoyue Xi  4 , Christl A Donnelly  1   5 , Neil M Ferguson  1
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SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence on repatriation flights from Wuhan City, China

Hayley A Thompson et al. J Travel Med. .
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Observed per flight infection prevalence in repatriates returning from Wuhan China between 29 January to 27 February 2020 on flights where all individuals were tested on arrival and a pooled prevalence estimate across these flights. Pooled estimate results from binomial mixed-effect model fitting. Flights are ordered by date of departure. An arrow indicates where CIs for individual flight prevalence extends past 10%.
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