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. 2020 May 28:taaa085. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa085
COVID-19 Immunity Passport to Ease Travel Restrictions?
Lin H Chen
1,✉, David O Freedman
2, Leo G Visser
3
Lin H Chen, MD
1
Division of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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David O Freedman, MD
2
Division of Infectious Diseases, William C. Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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Leo G Visser, MD, PhD
3
Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1
Division of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2
Division of Infectious Diseases, William C. Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
3
Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Corresponding Author: Lin H. Chen, MD, Mount Auburn Hospital, 330 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; Tel: 617.499.5026; Email: lchen@hms.harvard.edu
Received 2020 May 17; Revised 2020 May 22; Accepted 2020 May 24.
Keywords: SARS-CoV-2, certificate, duration of protection, border measures, pandemic, coronavirus, antibody
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