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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Research

Potential Impact of Antiviral Drug Use during Influenza Pandemic

Raymond Gani*Comments to Author , Helen Hughes*, Douglas Fleming†, Thomas Griffin*, Jolyon Medlock*, and Steve Leach*
Author affiliations: *Health Protection Agency, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom; †Royal College of General Practitioners, Harborne, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Table 3

Parameters required for scenario specific simulations

Baseline195719681918 1st wave1918 2nd wave1918 3rd wave
Overall hospitalization rate per 100,000 population138*188†144†
Overall clinical attack rate, %25†31†21‡9%§
Overall serologic attack rate, %50‡67‡65§79§61§69§
% immune at start of wave15‡
R01.39‡1.65‡2.2‡2.00†1.55‡1.70‡
Case-fatality rate, %0.70†3.25†2.70†

*Derived from model simulations.
†Reported values.
‡Calculated directly from data.
§Calculated by fitting the model to data.
¶Assumed values.

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