SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Rates Among Evacuees From Afghanistan After Withdrawal of the Coalition Forces

Adeel A Butt; Naseer A Masoodi; Arslan T Jawad; Fatima Haider; Nadya Al Rauili; Salih Al-Marri; Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.13467

SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Rates Among Evacuees From Afghanistan After Withdrawal of the Coalition Forces

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 May 2;5(5):e2213467. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.13467.

Authors

Adeel A Butt^{1

2

3}, Naseer A Masoodi¹, Arslan T Jawad¹, Fatima Haider¹, Nadya Al Rauili¹, Salih Al-Marri⁴, Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra¹

Affiliations

¹ Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
² Departments of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, Weil Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
³ Departments of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, Weil Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar.
⁴ Ministry of Public Health, Qatar.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the rate of active SARS-CoV-2 infection among Afghan refugees arriving in Qatar after the withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan.

MeSH terms

Afghanistan
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2*