Does 2x2 airplane passenger contact tracing for infectious respiratory pathogens work? A systematic review of the evidence

• Anna C. Rafferty ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna C. Rafferty, Kelly Bofkin, Whitney Hughes

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, National Incident Centre, The Australian Government Department of Health, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7433-0430

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• Kelly Bofkin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna C. Rafferty, Kelly Bofkin, Whitney Hughes

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Qantas Airways Limited, Mascot, New South Wales, Australia, Virgin Australia Airlines, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Whitney Hughes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna C. Rafferty, Kelly Bofkin, Whitney Hughes

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Qantas Airways Limited, Mascot, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8170-3458

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• Sara Souter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Qantas Airways Limited, Mascot, New South Wales, Australia, Virgin Australia Airlines, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Ian Hosegood ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Qantas Airways Limited, Mascot, New South Wales, Australia

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• Robyn N. Hall ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National Incident Centre, The Australian Government Department of Health, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Luis Furuya-Kanamori ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

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• Bette Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia

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• Michael Drane ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Air New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand

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• Toby Regan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation New Zealand Ministry of Health, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Molly Halder ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation New Zealand Ministry of Health, Wellington, New Zealand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0203-1970

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• Catherine Kelaher ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National Incident Centre, The Australian Government Department of Health, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8264-3725

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• Martyn D. Kirk

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: martyn.kirk@anu.edu.au

  ¶‡ SS, IH, RNH, LFK, BL, MD, TR, MH, CK and MDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, National Incident Centre, The Australian Government Department of Health, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5432-5984

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