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Societal Learning in Epidemics: Intervention Effectiveness during the 2003 SARS Outbreak in Singapore

Societal Learning in Epidemics: Intervention Effectiveness during the 2003 SARS Outbreak in Singapore

Background Rapid response to outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases is impeded by uncertain diagnoses and delayed communication. Understanding the effect of inefficient response is a potentially important contribution of epidemic theory. To develop this understanding we studied societal learning during emerging outbreaks wherein patient removal accelerates as information is gathered …