Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...eive to be effective social distancing measures or nonpharmaceutical interventions including isolation of those who are...nificant association between increased duration of nonpharmaceutical interventions and a reduced total number of deaths. These findings contrast with the conventional...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
...nd increase the speed with which they can be made, nonpharmaceutical interventions may buy valuable time at the beginni... more than 90 percent. The fact that the early, nonpharmaceutical interventions were effective at the height of the pandemic can inform pandemic planners today, the a...