What are the public-health lessons of H1N1? Preach less, engage more

June 9, 2010

Friday will mark the one-year anniversary of influenza A/H1N1 being declared a pandemic. The pesky little virus, despite some early hype, didn’t turn out to be much of a killer, but it continues to make headlines. Let’s take a look behind one of those headlines, as it appeared in The Globe and Mail: The Flu Reality: Ottawa’s Mass Immunization Program Failed was a story about the dramatically different vaccination rates during the mass immunization campaign. (The Globe and Mail)