Back

Delaying the COVID-19 epidemic in Australia: Evaluating the effectiveness of international travel bans

2020-03-27 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
View on medRxiv
Show abstract

Following the outbreak of novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) or COVID-19 in Wuhan, China late 2019, different countries have put in place interventions such as travel ban, proper hygiene, and social distancing to slow the spread of this novel virus. We evaluated the effects of travel bans in the Australia context and projected the epidemic until May 2020. Our modelling results closely align with observed cases in Australia indicating the need for maintaining or im...

Predicted journal destinations

1
PLOS ONE
1737 training papers
Top 58% 10.2%
2
Scientific Reports
701 training papers
Top 31% 7.2%
3
Eurosurveillance
77 training papers
Top 0.3% 6.0%
4
Nature Communications
483 training papers
Top 19% 6.0%
5
Journal of Travel Medicine
17 training papers
#1 5.5%
6
Emerging Infectious Diseases
84 training papers
Top 0.5% 5.5%
7
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
166 training papers
Top 7% 3.6%
8
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
115 training papers
Top 4% 3.6%
9
Clinical Infectious Diseases
219 training papers
Top 13% 2.6%
10
BMJ Open
553 training papers
Top 51% 1.8%
11
BMC Infectious Diseases
110 training papers
Top 8% 1.8%
12
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
57 training papers
Top 3% 1.4%
13
Epidemics
96 training papers
Top 7% 1.4%
14
BMC Medicine
155 training papers
Top 18% 1.4%
15
eLife
262 training papers
Top 32% 1.4%
16
PLOS Computational Biology
141 training papers
Top 9% 1.4%
17
Journal of Medical Virology
95 training papers
Top 9% 1.2%
18
Frontiers in Public Health
135 training papers
Top 24% 1.2%
19
Viruses
79 training papers
Top 7% 1.1%
20
Journal of Infection
64 training papers
Top 7% 1.1%
21
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
124 training papers
Top 14% 0.9%
22
Nature
58 training papers
Top 8% 0.9%
23
Nature Medicine
88 training papers
Top 14% 0.9%
24
Frontiers in Medicine
99 training papers
Top 20% 0.9%
25
PLOS Global Public Health
287 training papers
Top 31% 0.9%
26
PeerJ
46 training papers
Top 6% 0.9%
27
BMJ Global Health
95 training papers
Top 18% 0.9%
28
Vaccine
140 training papers
Top 9% 0.9%
29
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
137 training papers
Top 15% 0.9%
30
JAMA Network Open
125 training papers
Top 34% 0.7%