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That's not to say that very strict restrictions wouldn't have some effect on slowing the virus. In a 2006 study, Harvard epidemiologists John Brownstein and Kenneth Mandl examined the effect of the sharp reduction in air travel after the Sept. 11 attacks on that year's flu season. They found that the initial flight ban and general decline in air travel in the weeks after delayed the onset of the flu season but did little to reduce the overall number of infections and deaths that year...
...pandemic, not stop its spread. But, again, while that strategy may benefit countries that have not yet been infected with swine flu, there's still no way to know when it would be safe to lift those restrictions. "There's no question that air travel spreads the flu," says Mandl, a physician and researcher at the informatics program at Children's Hospital Boston and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. "But the impact of limiting flights at this point is difficult compared to the downside of the economic impact...
...personal health records would also facilitate more individualized treatment, according to Mandl. For example, Mandl said that during the flu vaccine shortage earlier this year, the electronic system could have recommended vaccinations for high-risk patients only...
While Platt and Mandl will work with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Children’s Hospital, the research will have global implications, Mandl said...
Privacy advocates have voiced concerns about the possibility of the data being stolen and used to defraud the patients involved. While acknowledging the seriousness of this possibility, Mandl said that “security is paramount in our model.” He explained that the data will be stored on highly secure servers with firewalls and that each file will be individually encrypted...