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Protecting Residential Care Facilities From Pandemic Influenza, Miriam Nuño, Thomas A. Reichert, Gerardo Chowell, Abba B. Gumel
Protecting Residential Care Facilities From Pandemic Influenza, Miriam Nuño, Thomas A. Reichert, Gerardo Chowell, Abba B. Gumel
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It is widely believed that protecting health care facilities against outbreaks of pandemic influenza requires pharmaceutical resources such as antivirals and vaccines. However, early in a pandemic, vaccines will not likely be available and antivirals will probably be of limited supply. The containment of pandemic influenza within acute-care hospitals anywhere is problematic because of open connections with communities. However, other health care institutions, especially those providing care for the disabled, can potentially control community access. We modeled a residential care facility by using a stochastic compartmental model to address the question of whether conditions exist under which nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) …