Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021

Annually, ≈30,000 Hasidic and Orthodox Jews travel to Uman, Ukraine, during the Jewish New Year to pray at the burial place of the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement. Many pilgrims come from the northeastern United States. The global health implications of this event were seen in 2019 when mea...

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Main Authors: Lauren Erickson-Mamane, Alina Kryshchuk, Olga Gvozdetska, Dmytro Rossovskyi, Aaron Glatt, David Katz, Zvi Gluck, Deena Butryn, Yonathan Gebru, Laura Guerra, Alyssa Masor, Kathleen Blaney, Christopher A. Papaharalambus, Ezra J. Barzilay, Avi J. Hakim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2022-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/13/22-0183_article