High attack rate of COVID-19 in an organized tour group of vaccinated travellers to Iceland

Shmuel Benenson; Miriam Ottolenghi; Matan J. Cohen; Ran Nir-Paz; Yonatan Oster

doi:10.1093/jtm/taab157

High attack rate of COVID-19 in an organized tour group of vaccinated travellers to Iceland

Shmuel Benenson
, Miriam Ottolenghi
, Matan J. Cohen
, Ran Nir-Paz
, Yonatan Oster^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC)

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Abstract

In a COVID-19 outbreak in a group of 25 twice-vaccinated Israeli travellers, the attack rate was 84%, despite negative preflight polymerase chain reaction tests. This extremely high breakthrough infection rate is attributed mainly to close and prolonged exposures during long bus drives. Masking, distancing and personal responsibility are required to avoid such outbreaks.

Original language	English
Article number	taab157
Journal	Journal of Travel Medicine
Volume	28
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taab157
State	Published - 1 Dec 2021

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BNT162b2 vaccine
PCR testing
SARS-CoV-2
breakthrough infection
international flights
masking
protective measures

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