Author: Simonsen, Lone; Viboud, Cecile
Title: Pandemics, Severity, and Context—Some Loose Ends Document date: 2017_8_1
ID: 42abb96r_8
Snippet: Thinking beyond mortality as an outcome is important. We fully concur that consideration of other metrics beyond mortality is important. The recent experience of devastating cases of microcephaly in the Americas following Zika virus infection during pregnancy is a case in point. Similarly, the death toll of the 2009 pandemic was low in high-income countries, probably mostly due to intense and costly intensive care treatment of an unusual number o.....
Document: Thinking beyond mortality as an outcome is important. We fully concur that consideration of other metrics beyond mortality is important. The recent experience of devastating cases of microcephaly in the Americas following Zika virus infection during pregnancy is a case in point. Similarly, the death toll of the 2009 pandemic was low in high-income countries, probably mostly due to intense and costly intensive care treatment of an unusual number of severely ill young adults.
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