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Characteristics of and Public Health Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and H1N1 Outbreaks: A Case-Comparison Study

Background: Recently, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has already spread rapidly as a global pandemic, just like the H1N1 swine influenza in 2009. Evidences have indicated that the efficiency of emergency response was considered crucial to curb the spread of the emerging infectious disease....

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Autores principales: Wang, Qian, Zhang, Tiantian, Zhu, Huanhuan, Wang, Ying, Liu, Xin, Bai, Ge, Dai, Ruiming, Zhou, Ping, Luo, Li
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7344548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32575492
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124409
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author Wang, Qian
Zhang, Tiantian
Zhu, Huanhuan
Wang, Ying
Liu, Xin
Bai, Ge
Dai, Ruiming
Zhou, Ping
Luo, Li
author_facet Wang, Qian
Zhang, Tiantian
Zhu, Huanhuan
Wang, Ying
Liu, Xin
Bai, Ge
Dai, Ruiming
Zhou, Ping
Luo, Li
author_sort Wang, Qian
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description Background: Recently, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has already spread rapidly as a global pandemic, just like the H1N1 swine influenza in 2009. Evidences have indicated that the efficiency of emergency response was considered crucial to curb the spread of the emerging infectious disease. However, studies of COVID-19 on this topic are relatively few. Methods: A qualitative comparative study was conducted to compare the timeline of emergency responses to H1N1 (2009) and COVID-19, by using a set of six key time nodes selected from international literature. Besides, we also explored the spread speed and peak time of COVID-19 and H1N1 swine influenza by comparing the confirmed cases in the same time interval. Results: The government’s entire emergency responses to the epidemic, H1N1 swine influenza (2009) completed in 28 days, and COVID-19 (2019) completed in 46 days. Emergency responses speed for H1N1 was 18 days faster. As for the epidemic spread speed, the peak time of H1N1 came about 4 weeks later than that of COVID-19, and the H1N1 curve in America was flatter than COVID-19 in China within the first four months after the disease emerged. Conclusions: The speed of the emergency responses to H1N1 was faster than COVID-19, which might be an important influential factor for slowing down the arrival of the peak time at the beginning of the epidemic. Although COVID-19 in China is coming to an end, the government should improve the public health emergency system, in order to control the spread of the epidemic and lessen the adverse social effects in possible future outbreaks.
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spelling pubmed-73445482020-07-09 Characteristics of and Public Health Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and H1N1 Outbreaks: A Case-Comparison Study Wang, Qian Zhang, Tiantian Zhu, Huanhuan Wang, Ying Liu, Xin Bai, Ge Dai, Ruiming Zhou, Ping Luo, Li Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Recently, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has already spread rapidly as a global pandemic, just like the H1N1 swine influenza in 2009. Evidences have indicated that the efficiency of emergency response was considered crucial to curb the spread of the emerging infectious disease. However, studies of COVID-19 on this topic are relatively few. Methods: A qualitative comparative study was conducted to compare the timeline of emergency responses to H1N1 (2009) and COVID-19, by using a set of six key time nodes selected from international literature. Besides, we also explored the spread speed and peak time of COVID-19 and H1N1 swine influenza by comparing the confirmed cases in the same time interval. Results: The government’s entire emergency responses to the epidemic, H1N1 swine influenza (2009) completed in 28 days, and COVID-19 (2019) completed in 46 days. Emergency responses speed for H1N1 was 18 days faster. As for the epidemic spread speed, the peak time of H1N1 came about 4 weeks later than that of COVID-19, and the H1N1 curve in America was flatter than COVID-19 in China within the first four months after the disease emerged. Conclusions: The speed of the emergency responses to H1N1 was faster than COVID-19, which might be an important influential factor for slowing down the arrival of the peak time at the beginning of the epidemic. Although COVID-19 in China is coming to an end, the government should improve the public health emergency system, in order to control the spread of the epidemic and lessen the adverse social effects in possible future outbreaks. MDPI 2020-06-19 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7344548/ /pubmed/32575492 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124409 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Qian
Zhang, Tiantian
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Wang, Ying
Liu, Xin
Bai, Ge
Dai, Ruiming
Zhou, Ping
Luo, Li
Characteristics of and Public Health Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and H1N1 Outbreaks: A Case-Comparison Study
title Characteristics of and Public Health Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and H1N1 Outbreaks: A Case-Comparison Study
title_full Characteristics of and Public Health Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and H1N1 Outbreaks: A Case-Comparison Study
title_fullStr Characteristics of and Public Health Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and H1N1 Outbreaks: A Case-Comparison Study
title_full_unstemmed Characteristics of and Public Health Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and H1N1 Outbreaks: A Case-Comparison Study
title_short Characteristics of and Public Health Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and H1N1 Outbreaks: A Case-Comparison Study
title_sort characteristics of and public health emergency responses to covid-19 and h1n1 outbreaks: a case-comparison study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7344548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32575492
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124409
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