Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

The Economic Impact of Pandemic Influenza in the United States: Priorities for Intervention

Martin I. Meltzer

, Nancy J. Cox, and Keiji Fukuda

Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Impact of influenza pandemic in the United States: mean, minimum, maximum, and 5th and 95th percentiles of total death, hospitalizations, outpatients, and those ill (but not seeking medical care) for different gross attack rates. Note that for each gross attack rate, data are totals for all age groups and risk categories.

Figure 1. Impact of influenza pandemic in the United States: mean, minimum, maximum, and 5th and 95th percentiles of total death, hospitalizations, outpatients, and those ill (but not seeking medical care) for different gross attack rates. Note that for each gross attack rate, data are totals for all age groups and risk categories.

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