How to stop the flu (MIT)
Between 1918 and 1920, an influenza epidemic swept across the globe, infecting
more than a quarter of the world’s population and killing 50 to 100 million
people.
If a similar outbreak occurred today, vaccines might help, but it’s possible
that vaccine production would not be ramped up in time to have a significant
effect. Furthermore, hospitals would likely be overwhelmed, leaving many
patients to be cared for by family members at home.
In that situation, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) would be critical
to minimizing the spread of infection, say Richard Larson and Stan
Finkelstein, members of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division (ESD), who want to
get the word out about how to prevent the flu from spreading between family
members and other groups of people who live or work in close quarters.
“We thought, ‘Let’s look at the dynamics of the home and see if there are any
reasonably inexpensive steps that people could take to care for their loved
ones and simultaneously minimize the chance of getting infected,’” says
Larson, the Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems.
Larson and Finkelstein — a senior research scientist in ESD — and their
colleagues found that steps such as proper hand washing, …
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