“The most important conclusion from this work is that the timing of public health interventions had a profound influence on the pattern [of influenza mortality in 1918].” https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7588 …pic.twitter.com/z6RJyOTC7E
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“The most important conclusion from this work is that the timing of public health interventions had a profound influence on the pattern [of influenza mortality in 1918].” https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7588 …pic.twitter.com/z6RJyOTC7E
"“Those cities acting in a timely and comprehensive manner appear to have benefited most in terms of reductions” in total influenza mortality." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/208354 …pic.twitter.com/0nREQkEQ3A
“Cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic had peak death rates ≈50% lower than those that did not and had less-steep epidemic curves.” https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7582 …pic.twitter.com/GrSrtvJSFj
Social distancing and avoiding crowding reduced the “peak incidence of an epidemic and spread it over many, rather than a few, weeks” for the 1957 and 1968 influenza pandemics.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291415/ …
"Mandatory school closures and other social distancing measures implemented in the greater Mexico City area was associated with a 29%–37% reduction in influenza transmission" for H1N1 in 2009. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000436 …pic.twitter.com/Jpi4AKK1Ev
Bring back glove-wearing....and the bow and curtsey again too.
Everybody, stay away from me...
@threadreaderapp please unroll
Namaste, please find the unroll here: Thread by @joshmich: If there's a lesson that historical pandemics of influenza provide, it is that earlier (and longer… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1235906489921007616.html …. See you soon. 
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