Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Glass, Robert J. ; Glass, Laura M. ; Beyeler, Walter E. ; Min, H. Jason
• Description:
  Targeted social distancing to mitigate pandemic influenza can be designed through simulation of influenza's spread within local community social contact networks. We demonstrate this design for a stylized community representative of a small town in the United States. The critical importance of children and teenagers in transmission of influenza is first identified and targeted. For influenza as infectious as 1957-58 Asian flu (=50% infected), closing schools and keeping children and teenagers at home reduced the attack rate by >90%. For more infectious strains, or transmission that is less focused on the young, adults and the work environment must also be targeted. Tailored to specific communities across the world, such design would yield local defenses against a highly virulent strain in the absence of vaccine and antiviral drugs.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Child Computer Simulation Disease Outbreaks Humans Influenza Influenza, Human Nonlinear Models Patient Simulation Research Social Distance Social Networks

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(11):1671-1681.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9a452ccd8e77f02bd3cc981a914f3f7ce8d771f4711651460a43ee0dc9db89a9
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16257/cdc_16257_DS1.pdf
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