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Volume 28, Supplement—December 2022
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
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Faith Community Engagement to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Associated with Mass Gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021

Lauren Erickson-MamaneComments to Author , Alina Kryshchuk, Olga Gvozdetska, Dmytro Rossovskyi, Aaron Glatt, David Katz, Zvi Gluck, Deena Butryn, Yonathan Gebru, Laura Guerra1, Alyssa Masor, Kathleen Blaney, Christopher A. Papaharalambus, Ezra J. Barzilay, and Avi J. Hakim
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (L. Erickson-Mamane, D. Butryn, Y. Gebru, A.J. Hakim); Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine (A. Kryshchuk, O. Gvozdetska, D. Rossovskyi); Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, New York, USA (A. Glatt); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA (A. Glatt); Rabbinical Alliance of America, Brooklyn, New York, USA (A. Glatt, D. Katz); Amudim Community Resources, New York (Z. Gluck); New York City Test and Trace Corps, New York (L. Guerra); New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York (A. Masor, K. Blaney); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ukraine, Kyiv (C.A. Papaharalambus, E.J. Barzilay)

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Table 1

COVID-19 mitigation measures implemented by UPHC and associated with mass gathering, Uman, Ukraine, September 2021*

Mitigation measure Location Quantity
Safe celebration of Rosh Hashanah video in English and Hebrew
 International airports of Kyiv and Lviv, hotels and refectories in Uman, and central billboard on Pushkina Street, the main thoroughfare for the pilgrimage
 2 videos: 1 in English with Hebrew subtitles, 1 in Hebrew with English subtitles
Safe celebration of Jewish high holidays web content
 UPHC Web site, Visit Ukraine Web site (principle tourist information portal for travelers)
Distribution of CDC-developed fact sheet
 Rabbi Nachman of Breslov International Charitable Foundation and pilgrimage in Uma
 19,000 fact sheets distributed
COVID-19 mitigation posters
 Kyiv and Lviv airports, hotel lobbies, Red Cross tents, local synagogues, and Rabbi Nachman’s burial place
 30 posters
COVID-19 hotline: Hebrew language option
 Nation
 1 national hotline
CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 antigen tests† distributed
 Uman
 50,000
Hand sanitizer
 Distributed to pilgrims in Uman
 19,000
Disposable masks Distributed to pilgrims in Uman 190,000

*CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; UPHC, National Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. †Siemens (https://www.siemens.com).

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1Current affiliation: Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.

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