On-time inoculation allows us to decrease the population’s morbidity 1.4-1.7 times

[milan2003_07]

Dear friends,

Below there is a sentence from my technical paper:

"On-time inoculation allows us to decrease the population’s morbidity 1.4-1.7 times or even more, reduce the death rate from influenza and influenza-associated death rate from somatic diseases".

I have a few questions about this sentence:

1) Is "on-time" coorect her? The intended meaning is inoculation given before the beginning (outbreak of the epidemics).

2) Do I need any preposition between "morbidity" and "1.4-1.7 times"? For example, "morbidity by 1.4-1.7 times".

3) Does "influenza-assocoiated" sound fine here?

Thanks

 

[MikeNewYork]

1. Yes.
2. No, not needed.
3. Yes.

Your original sentence would be better as two sentences.

"On-time inoculation allows us to decrease the population’s morbidity 1.4-1.7 times or even more. It also reduces the death rate from influenza and influenza-associated death rate from somatic diseases".

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

Here's another opinion.

1. I'd prefer 'timely'.
2. Yes, use 'by'.
3. Yes.

The two-sentence version is better.