Journal club: The effects of closing schools during an influenza pandemic

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Closing schools to restrict the spread of influenza during a pandemic is an idea oftern floated, but what effect does it actually have? Thorax’s Journal Club editor Jennifer Quint asks David Earn, professor of mathematics, McMaster University, what his work on the 2009 H1N1 outbreak in Alberta, Canada reveals. See also: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1033342

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