Air travel and COVID-19 prevention: Fasten your seat belts, turbulence ahead

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Location AMC, Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam Infection & Immunity, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105, AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine IDM, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Institut für Tropenmedizin, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Centre de Reserchers Médicales CERMEL, Lambaréné, Gabon; Masanga Medical Research Unit, Masanga, Sierra Leone. Electronic address: m.p.grobusch@amsterdamumc.nl.
² Masanga Medical Research Unit, Masanga, Sierra Leone; Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
³ International Health Management Consultants S.A. iNHEMACO, Geneva, Switzerland; School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Editorial

Martin P Grobusch et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 Nov-Dec.

. 2020 Nov-Dec:38:101927.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101927. Epub 2020 Nov 20.

¹ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Location AMC, Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam Infection & Immunity, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105, AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine IDM, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Institut für Tropenmedizin, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Centre de Reserchers Médicales CERMEL, Lambaréné, Gabon; Masanga Medical Research Unit, Masanga, Sierra Leone. Electronic address: m.p.grobusch@amsterdamumc.nl.
² Masanga Medical Research Unit, Masanga, Sierra Leone; Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
³ International Health Management Consultants S.A. iNHEMACO, Geneva, Switzerland; School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Keywords: Air travel; COVID-19; Prevention; SARS-CoV-2; Transmission.

Comment on

Air travel and COVID-19 prevention in the pandemic and peri-pandemic period: A narrative review.
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