Publications by authors named "L Rotz"
We report on five SARS-CoV-2 congregate setting outbreaks at U.S. Operation Allies Welcome Safe Havens/military facilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOn August 29, 2021, the United States government oversaw the emergent establishment of Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and implemented by the U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn January 2020, with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), CDC instituted an enhanced entry risk assessment and management (screening) program for air passengers arriving from certain countries with widespread, sustained transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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- - A study was conducted on 195 evacuees returning from Wuhan, China, in January 2020, to assess their exposure to SARS-CoV-2 following their quarantine.
- - Nearly all evacuees had taken preventive measures and none had detectable SARS-CoV-2 in their respiratory samples, indicating no asymptomatic shedding among them.
- - Only one evacuee tested positive for antibodies despite no symptoms or reported high-risk exposures, suggesting that this group posed a low risk of bringing the virus to the U.S.
The 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the Republic of Korea (ROK) is an example of an infectious disease outbreak initiated by international travelers to a high-income country. This study was conducted to determine the economic impact of the MERS outbreak on the tourism and travel-related service sectors, including accommodation, food and beverage, and transportation, in the ROK. We projected monthly numbers of noncitizen arrivals and indices of services for 3 travel-related service sectors during and after the MERS outbreak (June 2015 to June 2016) using seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average models.
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