Sentence examples for outbreak decisions from inspiring English sources

Because there was only a single strain responsible for the 2001 anthrax outbreak, decisions regarding initial treatment could be made empirically [18].

First, during the initial days of the outbreak, decisions were made in order to contain the spread of the virus.

In the event of an infectious disease outbreak, decisions may be necessarily based on models which are parameterised from data recorded for purposes other than epidemiological demographic studies.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just inoculated 140 medical workers who might be needed to respond to an outbreak, no decision has been made on whether to begin administering vaccines to the general public.

The government announced last week that schools would not be opened until the first week of October to give the government time to prepare for a potential swine flu outbreak, a decision that could have been made anytime over the past three months, while schools were closed for summer break, critics said.

This is often not the case during outbreaks as decisions are frequently multi-factorial (i.e based on known epidemiological linkages and the available resources).

The surveillance of the simulated ILI counts without any inserted outbreaks informs decisions about the real-world tenability of a surveillance system.

Projections of disease outbreaks afford decision makers the opportunity to proactively initiate activities to reduce the impacts of outbreaks.

At the pre-outbreak stage, decision makers will have a tool that summarizes risk across data streams for multiple drivers of IDs.

We therefore believe MRSA typing should be determined during outbreaks to influence decisions on HCW screening and decolonisation and should be reported in infection control publications, to better determine the influence of MRSA type on outbreak characteristics and control.

Based on the rapidity of events, the apparent high case-fatality rate, and recent experience with the failure of targeted culturing and treatment (as described in outbreak 1), a decision was made to initiate mass antibiotic treatment for all facility residents and staff.