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Research in the area of public health reported from Stony Brook
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 4th, 2010
"The Spanish influenza arrived in the United States at a time when new forms of mass transportation, mass media, mass consumption, and mass warfare had vastly expanded the public places in which communicable diseases could spread. Faced with a deadly ''crowd'' disease, public health authorities tried to implement social-distancing measures at an unprecedented level of intensity," scientists in the United States report.
"Recent historical work suggests that the early and sustained imposition of gathering bans, school closures, and other social-distancing measures significantly reduced mortality rates during the 1918-1919 epidemics. This finding makes it all the more...
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