End of year editorial

• Verfasst von: Wilder-Smith, Annelies [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: End of year editorial
• Titelzusatz: hot topics in travel medicine
• Verf.angabe: Annelies Wilder-Smith
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: 19 November 2020
• Umfang: 5 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 13.02.2022
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of travel medicine
• Ort Quelle: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 27(2020), 8, Artikel-ID taaa215, Seite 1-5
• ISSN Quelle: 1708-8305
• DOI: doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa215
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 178948720X

Abstract

No doubt, the hot topic in travel medicine in 2020 was the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 turned travel medicine upside down, plummeted the travel and tourism industry and rendered many travel medicine clinics empty, not to mention it revolutionized our own personal lives by stay-at-home orders and mobility restrictions. Travellers were the initial vectors, and travel became the immediate victim.1 Never in history have we seen such a dramatic decline in air travel. The International Society of Travel Medicine as a whole was affected; our regional conference was cancelled, and all our meetings for leadership or educational purposes are now online. Some of us have lost loved ones; others have experienced the disease; some are still suffering from long-COVID.