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...Staff writer Arianna Markel can be reached at amarkel@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Arianna Markel can be reached at amarkel@fas.harvard.edu...
This year, the university has used a College Board pilot program which cross references zip code and census block information with search lists to find students who may qualify for HFAI. —Staff writer Arianna Markel can be reached at amarkel@fas.harvard.edu...
...Though Markel's study has just been published, it has already been rolled into policy. The Department of Health and Human Services and CDC finished their analysis of the study's data last December before incorporating it into the Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation, a collection of guidelines for use by individuals and communities issued by the agencies in February. The guide offers help in coordinating and implementing a strategy to protect communities from the front end of an epidemic and to keep them afloat until the appropriate pandemic-strain vaccine can be delivered to them - which officials estimate...
...that of 1918. Individual rights are guarded a lot more fiercely today than in the past, and people may not submit easily to compulsory quarantine or isolation. It is critical that if we were to implement such public health measures that we have adequate medical and psychological support, says Markel. "If you come down with the force of the law very hard, you have to ask if the public health edict helps public health or endangers it," he says. "The onus is on us as physicians, public health experts, government public health officers at the city, state and federal levels...