Volume 11, Number 9, September 2005

Potential Impact of Antiviral Drug Use during Influenza Pandemic

Raymond Gani,* Helen Hughes,* Douglas Fleming,† Thomas Griffin,* Jolyon Medlock,* and Steve Leach*
*Health Protection Agency, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom; and †Royal College of General Practitioners, Harborne, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Figure 3. A), Output from the model fitted to the first wave of the 1957 pandemic scaled to fit observations from the 1957 pandemic (26). B), Estimated hospitalization rates from a simulated pandemic with available parameters from the 1957 pandemic, as influenced by stockpile size and treatment strategy. C), Impact of treatment strategy on the time course of hospitalizations when the stockpile size is fixed at 10% of the population, the stockpile is fixed at 25% of the population and all clinical cases are treated, and when no treatment is administered.

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