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Editor, Senior Moderator
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
. 2025 Sep 19:19:e265.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2025.10197. Early Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response Measures to SARS, H1N1, and COVID-19: A Case-Comparative Study
Zhicheng Liu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Dingqi Li[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jinhua Li[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yue Du[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Li Wang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Jiarui Si[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Objective: At present, COVID-19 has already spread rapidly as a global pandemic, just like SARS in 2003 and H1N1 swine influenza in 2009. This study analyzes surveillance and emergency responses to these three epidemics to identify gaps in public health emergency management.
Methods: This case-comparative study uses 6 critical time points to evaluate and compare the responses.
Results: Results indicate that China has demonstrated improvements in pathogen identification and governmental coordination since the SARS outbreak, though its overall responsiveness during COVID-19 remained slower than that of the U.S. during the H1N1 pandemic. Specifically, the total response time for COVID-19 was 47 days-64 days faster than during SARS, but still 19 days slower than the U.S. response to H1N1.
Conclusions: Big data technology is crucial for China's epidemic prevention and control, and has a significant influence on future detection and prevention.
Keywords: COVID-19; H1N1; SARS; emergency response; public health emergencies.
. 2025 Sep 19:19:e265.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2025.10197. Early Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response Measures to SARS, H1N1, and COVID-19: A Case-Comparative Study
Zhicheng Liu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Dingqi Li[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jinhua Li[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yue Du[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Li Wang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Jiarui Si[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 40970458
- DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2025.10197
Objective: At present, COVID-19 has already spread rapidly as a global pandemic, just like SARS in 2003 and H1N1 swine influenza in 2009. This study analyzes surveillance and emergency responses to these three epidemics to identify gaps in public health emergency management.
Methods: This case-comparative study uses 6 critical time points to evaluate and compare the responses.
Results: Results indicate that China has demonstrated improvements in pathogen identification and governmental coordination since the SARS outbreak, though its overall responsiveness during COVID-19 remained slower than that of the U.S. during the H1N1 pandemic. Specifically, the total response time for COVID-19 was 47 days-64 days faster than during SARS, but still 19 days slower than the U.S. response to H1N1.
Conclusions: Big data technology is crucial for China's epidemic prevention and control, and has a significant influence on future detection and prevention.
Keywords: COVID-19; H1N1; SARS; emergency response; public health emergencies.