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Provides planning guidance for State & local communities that focuses on several measures other than vaccination & drug treatment that might be useful during an influenza pandemic to reduce its harm. Communities, individuals & families, employers, schools, & other org. will be asked to plan for the use of these interventions to help limit the spread of a pandemic, prevent disease & death, lessen the impact on the economy, & keep society functioning. Introduces a Pandemic Severity Index to characterize the severity of a pandemic, provides planning recommend. for specific interventions that communities may use for a given level of pandemic severity, & suggests when these measures should be started & how long they should be used. Ill.Leonard, Barry is the author of 'Interim Pre-Pandemic Planning Guidance : Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation -- Early, Targeted, Layered Use of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions', published 2007 under ISBN 9781422312476 and ISBN 142231247X.
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