Sentence examples similar to epidemic command from inspiring English sources
In the late 1980s, as the crack epidemic commanded everyone's attention, Eady was one of the thousands of women thrown behind bars for nonviolent drug offenses due to New York's harsh Rockefeller drug laws.
In the 2006-2007 season, Taiwan CDC activated a central command center for intensively dengue epidemic control on October 2. The task of this command center included expanded blood sample collection and it is likely that this resulted in more suspect cases for laboratory confirmation, which might have led to a lower proportion of positive cases.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health has taken extensive precautionary measures to secure the Hajj from epidemics, establishing a Command and Control Center to monitor suspicious cases, requiring vaccinations, and even suggesting wearing face masks.
The following observations support the hypothesis that meningococci of the clone MT19/ST42 command exceptional epidemic potential: dramatic spatial concentration displayed in Greater Aachen, concurrent rise of incidence in the area of clustering, and age-shift to older patients.
However, despite all the grim statistics, a solution to the AIDS epidemic is very much in sight, if we only command the necessary resources, have the dedication, and cut through the ideological barriers.
22 Second, the typical chronic nature of MNDs does not command a sense of urgency to act, for example compared with acute epidemics or famines.
A recent Economist article called it "akin to a government secretly commanding lockmakers to make their products easier to pick – and to do so amid an epidemic of burglary".
The film investigates a related topic — the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military — and shows how quickly a climate of complicity can ripple through a chain of command, to devastating effect (in military units and, one imagines, elsewhere).
