Would school closure for the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic have been worth the cost?: a computational simulation of Pennsylvania.

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Published in BMC Public Health on May 20, 2011

Authors

Shawn T Brown1, Julie H Y Tai, Rachel R Bailey, Philip C Cooley, William D Wheaton, Margaret A Potter, Ronald E Voorhees, Megan LeJeune, John J Grefenstette, Donald S Burke, Sarah M McGlone, Bruce Y Lee

Author Affiliations

1: Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. stb60@pitt.edu

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