Public Health Lessons for Non-Vaccine Influenza Interventions - Looking Past Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world's preparedness for a respiratory virus event. While the world has been combating COVID-19, seasonal and pandemic influenza remain imminent global health threats. Non-vaccine public health control measures can combat emerging and ongoing influenza outbreaks by mitigating viral spread.
Public Health Lessons for Non-Vaccine Influenza Interventions examines provides conclusions and recommendations from an expert committee on how to leverage the knowledge gained from the COVID-19 pandemic to optimize the use of public health interventions other than vaccines to decrease the toll of future seasonal and potentially pandemic influenza. It considers the effectiveness of public health efforts such as use of masks and indoor spacing, use of treatments such as monoclonal antibodies, and public health communication campaigns.

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• Authors: Board On Global Health, Committee on Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response, Health And Medicine Division, National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, National Academy of Medicine
• Assisted by: Alexander Capron (Editor), Patricia García (Editor), Ellen Schenk (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780309088176
• ISBN: 978-0-309-08817-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Tcrp Report, Nchrp Report
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine