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- Hao Lei, Modi Xu, Xiao Wang, Yu Xie, Xiangjun Du, Tao Chen, Lei Yang, Dayan Wang, and Yuelong Shu.
- School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
- J. Infect. Dis. 2020 Nov 9; 222 (11): 1780-1783.
AbstractTo suppress the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government has implemented nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Because COVID-19 and influenza have similar means of transmission, NPIs targeting COVID-19 may also affect influenza transmission. In this study, the extent to which NPIs targeting COVID-19 have affected seasonal influenza transmission was explored. Indicators of seasonal influenza activity in the epidemiological year 2019-2020 were compared with those in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. The incidence rate of seasonal influenza reduced by 64% in 2019-2020 (P < .001). These findings suggest that NPIs aimed at controlling COVID-19 significantly reduced seasonal influenza transmission in China.© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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