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...include transmissibility of a new virus but not severity, since it is difficult to gauge accurately the deadliness of a newly emerging infection in real time. "The declaration of a pandemic does not suggest that there has been any change in the behavior of the virus," said Dr. Thomas Frieden in his first press conference as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "It only means that it is spreading in more parts of the world." (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...Frieden noted also that since the first swine flu cases emerged, the U.S. has essentially been operating under the assumption of a pandemic. "In the U.S. and the Americas, we have already had widespread and continued transmission of the virus for some time, so this doesn't change any of our actions," he said. "Our key goal is determining where the virus is spreading and to reduce its impact, particularly on those who are most vulnerable...
...customers would also mirror important trends in public health legislation. New York City has adopted calorie-disclosure regulations that force many restaurants to post calorie information wherever the restaurant lists the information that customers use to make their choices. In a New York Times interview, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner, remarked “most people underestimate calorie content by a lot” and added that he considered the rules a potent weapon in the crusade against rising obesity rates. At the other end of the spectrum, individuals who have slow metabolisms...
...don’t think it should be the case that incoming students who opt for the Core will find any dearth of courses,” said Jeffry A. Frieden, last year’s chair of the Core’s Subcommittee on Quantitative Reasoning...
...adult residents have never been tested. Manhattan's rate of AIDS infection - 82 per 100,000, to the Bronx's 75 - is the highest among the city's five boroughs, but the Bronx has the highest fatality rate from the disease. "That's a damning indictment of our system," Frieden told TIME. "We're failing to get people tested during the time that they are without symptoms and during the time when they may be infecting other people." The city has high hopes the testing plan will help stem that tide. But it'll have better luck...