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Branswell on the lessons of SARS

Posted on September 23, 2008

Via The Times & Transcript in Fredericton, New Brunswick, a Canadian Press report by Helen Branswell: SARS restrictions worked well. Excerpt:Patients with serious health conditions who had to be hospitalized during Toronto's SARS outbreak didn't appear to suffer from being in hospital during that stressful and chaotic time, a new study suggests.The authors say the findings show the restrictions placed on Toronto hospitals during the SARS outbreak in 2003 were not detrimental to patients over the long term and could be used to contain future disease outbreaks. As a policy to restrict non-urgent...

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