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...plan for the future, researchers in Michigan went straight to the past. Led by Dr. Howard Markel, director of the University of Michigan Medical School's Center for the History of Medicine, a team of public-health experts evaluated the U.S. response to the world's last great pandemic - the Spanish flu in 1918. The new report, published in the Aug. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed the public-health measures taken by 43 U.S. cities, all with populations greater than 100,000, during the six months between Sept. 1918 and Feb. 1919. Markel found...
...Markel and colleagues divided the cities' interventions into three major categories: school closure, cancellation of public gatherings, and isolation and quarantine. During the 24 weeks researchers studied, there were 115,340 excess deaths due to pneumonia and influenza in 43 states, with a collective population of about 23 million. New York City responded to its earliest sign of infection with isolation and quarantine over a sustained period of time, beginning 13 days after the first case was detected, and had the lowest pandemic-related death rate of any city on the East coast. By contrast, Pittsburgh reacted late, waiting...
...Staff writer Arianna Markel can be reached at amarkel@fas.harvard.edu...
...snapped pictures of each of the candidates. The night’s action took place under the watchful eyes of a curiously out-of-place onlooker in a pink polo and dark shades. The sunglasses were clearly a precaution against sudden surges of extreme hotness or not-ness. Arianna Markel ’10 and Teresa M. Cotsirilos ’10 made the long trek from their room in Thayer. Markel seemed surprised to hear that the competition was a model-search and not a quest to find a girl that could “represent Harvard...
...satisfied by Viswanathan’s apology or explanation, and would not rule out legal action against her and her publisher, Little, Brown. Many of McCafferty’s fans said in interviews after the event that some sort of punishment for Viswanathan would be appropriate. Adrianna Markel, who will join the Class of 2010 this September, had little sympathy for her fellow Harvardian. “I think it should have an impact on whether she can write that second book,” Markel said, clutching a signed copy of McCafferty’s new novel...