Sentences with phrase «during the pandemic»

Previously, experimental models had suggested that T cells may protect against flu symptoms but until now this idea has not been tested in humans during a pandemic.

As to Wodarg's claim that the pandemic definition was changed to hasten the declaration of a pandemic, Fukuda said that the agency's six - phase alert system was refined a number of times over the years in consultation with scientists, but this did not happen during the pandemic.

«Secondary bacterial infections cause much of the sickness and about 25 percent of all deaths during the flu season, and 50 to 95 percent of deaths during pandemics of influenza,» says Jonathan McCullers, an infectious disease specialist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and co-author of a study that suggests a new way of treating such conditions.

They calculated the number of deaths from the flu in each country by subtracting the average death rate during the pandemic years from those of the years before and after.

In an analysis published in the journal Eurosurveillance, Heath Kelly, head of epidemiology at the state infectious diseases laboratory in Melbourne, calculates that Fluvax might have been worse than flu, causing two or three cases of convulsions for every case of flu it prevented that would have required a hospital stay during the pandemic.

The commercial supply chain, which has accomplished incredible innovation and has developed highly efficient systems, could be integrated into medical delivery during a pandemic to provide urgently needed medications.»

And it says WHO «fed suspicions» about its actions by insisting that Emergency Committee members who gave advice during the pandemic remain confidential and by not revealing their potential conflicts of interest.

Q: There has been a lot of debate about international solidarity during pandemics in the past few years.

But Lurie concluded with a caveat that has become the mantra for the U.S. government during this pandemic: «It's hard to predict week to week.»

The new backbone could help streamline annual vaccine production, which could be especially relevant during a pandemic, notes Kawaoka's group, when the sudden emergence of novel strains forces companies to rapidly make millions of doses of a new vaccine.

The region of the Americas experienced the highest total H1N1 mortality rates among the regions included in the analysis, while China and Member States in the Eastern Mediterranean regions had much lower mortality during the pandemic (Table 2).

I read The Stand by Stephen King a few years back and loved the way he actually took you through the breakdown of society during a pandemic.

Experiments have previously suggested that the CD8 T cells could protect against the virus, but the study of 341 staff and students at Imperial College London published in Nature Medicine is the first «natural experiment» to test the idea in humans during a pandemic.

The IHR would work better, it says, if it had enforceable sanctions, in particular if a country fails to explain why it restricted traffic or trade — as happened during the pandemic.

«If we can go in and, during a pandemic, treat individuals that are either susceptible to flu — the elderly or young children — or basically everybody during that period of time and decolonize them,» he says, «we have a better chance of saving a lot of lives.»