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1 April 2004

Volume 38, Number 7
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2004;38:925–931
© 2004 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
1058-4838/2004/3807-0001$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/382355
MAJOR ARTICLE

The Public’s Response to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Toronto and the United States

Robert J. Blendon,1,2

John M. Benson,1

Catherine M. DesRoches,1

Elizabeth Raleigh,1 and

Kalahn Taylor‐Clark1

1Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and 2John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Using data from 13 surveys of the public, this article compares the public’s response to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Ontario (specifically, Toronto), the other Canadian provinces, and the United States, which had substantial differences in the number of SARS cases. Findings suggest that, even at a relatively low level of spread among the population, the SARS outbreak had a significant psychological and economic impact. They also suggest that the success of efforts to educate the public about the risk of SARS and appropriate precautions was mixed. Some of the community‐wide problems with SARS might have been avoided with better communication by public health officials and clinicians.

Received 23 July 2003; accepted 30 October 2003; electronically published 16 March 2004.

  • (See the editorial commentary by Verghese on pages 932–3)

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Robert J. Blendon, Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., 4th Flr., Boston, MA 02115 ().

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