Modelling community-control strategies to protect hospital resources during an influenza pandemic in Ottawa, Canada.
A novel influenza virus has emerged to produce a global pandemic four times in the past one hundred years, resulting in millions of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. There is substantial uncertainty about when, where and how the next influenza pandemic will occur.We developed a novel mathemat...
Main Authors: | Patrick Saunders-Hastings, Bryson Quinn Hayes, Robert Smith, Daniel Krewski |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5470707?pdf=render |
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