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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| author | 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 |
| author_facet | 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 |
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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 measles outbreaks in the United States and Israel were linked to the pilgrimage. The 2020 pilgrimage was cancelled as part of the COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed by the government of Ukraine. To prepare for the 2021 event, the National Public Health Institute, the Public Health Center of Ukraine, organized mitigation measures for pilgrims arriving in Uman, and the CDC COVID-19 International Task Force assisted with mitigation measures for pilgrims coming from the United States. We describe efforts to support COVID-19 mitigation measures before, during, and after this mass gathering and lessons learned for future mass gatherings during pandemics.
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| spelling | doaj.art-de69e77d7f654f4aa885afb05636ebf32022-12-23T13:42:23ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60592022-11-01281319720210.3201/eid2813.220183Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021Lauren Erickson-MamaneAlina KryshchukOlga GvozdetskaDmytro RossovskyiAaron GlattDavid KatzZvi GluckDeena ButrynYonathan GebruLaura GuerraAlyssa MasorKathleen BlaneyChristopher A. PapaharalambusEzra J. BarzilayAvi J. Hakim 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 measles outbreaks in the United States and Israel were linked to the pilgrimage. The 2020 pilgrimage was cancelled as part of the COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed by the government of Ukraine. To prepare for the 2021 event, the National Public Health Institute, the Public Health Center of Ukraine, organized mitigation measures for pilgrims arriving in Uman, and the CDC COVID-19 International Task Force assisted with mitigation measures for pilgrims coming from the United States. We describe efforts to support COVID-19 mitigation measures before, during, and after this mass gathering and lessons learned for future mass gatherings during pandemics. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/13/22-0183_articleCOVID-19coronavirus diseasesevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2SARS-CoV-2coronavirusviruses |
| spellingShingle | 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 Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021 Emerging Infectious Diseases COVID-19 coronavirus disease severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus viruses |
| title | Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021 |
| title_full | Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021 |
| title_fullStr | Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021 |
| title_short | Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021 |
| title_sort | faith community engagement to mitigate covid 19 transmission associated with mass gathering uman ukraine september 2021 |
| topic | COVID-19 coronavirus disease severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus viruses |
| url | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/13/22-0183_article |
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