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Article: Resource allocation during an influenza pandemic.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
- Author:
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To the Editor: Planning for pandemic influenza is accepted as an essential healthcare service and has included creation of national and international antiviral drug stockpiles and novel approaches to emergency vaccine development (1). The effectiveness of these strategies in a pandemic may be substantial but is unknown. More certain is that effective management of severe and complicated influenza will reduce deaths and that demand will exceed available treatment resources (2). Appropriate allocation of treatment resources is therefore essential, perhaps more important than any specific treatment such as administering antiviral medication to symptomatic patients. Re source ...
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