Influenza and the winter increase in mortality in the United States, 1959-1999Thomas A Reichert
Entropy Research Institute, 262 West Saddle River Road, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:492-502. 2004
..Weather and other factors may determine the timing and modulate the magnitude of the winter-season increase in mortality, but the primary determinant appears to be the influenza virus...
- Preparing for the next influenza pandemic: lessons from multinational data
Thomas A Reichert
Entropy Research Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 24:S228-31. 2005
..Early results indicate that the U.S. results extend to other economically developed countries and probably worldwide...
Does Glycosylation as a modifier of Original Antigenic Sin explain the case age distribution and unusual toxicity in pandemic novel H1N1 influenza?Tom Reichert
Entropy Research Institute, 345 S, Great Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773, USA
BMC Infect Dis 10:5. 2010
..However, this principle is not sufficient to explain the graded susceptibility between ages 20 and 60, the reduced susceptibility in children below age 10, and the unusual toxicity observed...
Pandemic mitigation: Bringing it homeTom Reichert
Entropy Research Institute, 345 S Great Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773, USA
Math Biosci Eng 8:65-76. 2011
..These principles are further mapped onto individual residences. Materials directing institutional and home planning are cited...
- The age distribution of mortality due to influenza: pandemic and peri-pandemic
Tom Reichert
Entropy Research Institute, 345 S, Great Road, Lincoln, 01773, Massachusetts, USA
BMC Med 10:162. 2012
..Pandemic influenza is said to 'shift mortality' to younger age groups; but also to spare a subpopulation of the elderly population. Does one of these effects dominate? Might this have important ramifications?..
- The Japanese program of vaccination of schoolchildren against influenza: implications for control of the disease
Thomas A Reichert
Entropy Limited, 262 W Saddle River Rd, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, USA
Semin Pediatr Infect Dis 13:104-11. 2002
..In addition, the implications of the vaccination of schoolchildren for augmented control of influenza are explored...
- Impact of influenza vaccination on seasonal mortality in the US elderly population
Lone Simonsen
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 6613, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:265-72. 2005
..We tried to reconcile these conflicting findings by adjusting excess mortality estimates for aging and increased circulation of influenza A(H3N2) viruses...
- It's not about smoldering or neuraminidase: there were 2 variants of the A(H3N2) pandemic virus differing in internal genes
Thomas A Reichert
J Infect Dis 192:1858-60; author reply 1860-2. 2005
