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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Again, as you’re teaching your online classes during this crisis, a timely example for class discussion might be the September 2019 report “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mitigating
the Impact of Pandemic Influenza through Vaccine Innovation<span style="color:black">” by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The report
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">estimates “the potentially large health and economic losses in the United States associated with influenza pandemics”: specifically, fatalities of 54,000 to 538,000 and economic damage of
$413 billion to $3.8 trillion. It includes lucid explanations about how influenza viruses develop and how seasonal influenza differs from pandemic influenza as well as discussing the scientific details of vaccine production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The report is available from </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Mitigating-the-Impact-of-Pandemic-Influenza-through-Vaccine-Innovation.pdf">https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Mitigating-the-Impact-of-Pandemic-Influenza-through-Vaccine-Innovation.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Dragga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Editor,
<i>Technical Communication</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">sam.dragga@ttu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1-806-543-6099<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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