Media Coverage Reduces Pandemic Impact, Model Shows

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 11:35 in Health & Medicine

Public health officials have long believed that notifying the public about outbreaks of infectious disease could help reduce transmission rates and the overall impact of a pandemic. Now, researchers have modified the most widely used infectious disease model to account for the impact of media coverage.

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