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. 2021 Feb 23;28(2):taaa191.
doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa191.

Has the effectiveness of Australia's travel bans against China on the importation of COVID-19 been overestimated?

Angus McLure  1 , Colleen L Lau  1 , Luis Furuya-Kanamori  1
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Has the effectiveness of Australia's travel bans against China on the importation of COVID-19 been overestimated?

Angus McLure et al. J Travel Med. .

Abstract

In our re-analysis with adjusted assumptions, we found that a previous study substantially oversestimated the effectiveness of Australia’s complete travel ban against China in the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into Australia.

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