Escalating the 2022 Hajj during the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic

J Travel Med. 2022 Sep 17;29(6):taac059. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taac059.

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq^{1

2

3}, Rana F Kattan^{4

5}, Ziad A Memish^{6

7}

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran 31311, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21093, USA.
⁴ Pediatric Department, King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital(KASH), Riyadh 14611, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for -Health Sciences Riyadh 14611, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Department of Medicine, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Al-Faisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Hajj; Mass gatherings religious events; SARS-CoV-2; Umrah; restrictions; scaleup.

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