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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Feng, Luzhao
• Zhang, Ting
• Wang, Qing
• Xie, Yiran
• Peng, Zhibin
• Zheng, Jiandong
• Qin, Ying
• Zhang, Muli
• Lai, Shengjie
• Wang, Dayan
• Feng, Zijian
• Li, Zhongjie
• Gao, George F

Titel

Impact of COVID-19 outbreaks and interventions on influenza in China and the United States

Ist Teil von

• Nature communications, 2021-05, Vol.12 (1), p.3249-8, Article 3249

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was detected in China during the 2019-2020 seasonal influenza epidemic. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and behavioral changes to mitigate COVID-19 could have affected transmission dynamics of influenza and other respiratory diseases. By comparing 2019-2020 seasonal influenza activity through March 29, 2020 with the 2011-2019 seasons, we found that COVID-19 outbreaks and related NPIs may have reduced influenza in Southern and Northern China and the United States by 79.2% (lower and upper bounds: 48.8%-87.2%), 79.4% (44.9%-87.4%) and 67.2% (11.5%-80.5%). Decreases in influenza virus infection were also associated with the timing of NPIs. Without COVID-19 NPIs, influenza activity in China and the United States would likely have remained high during the 2019-2020 season. Our findings provide evidence that NPIs can partially mitigate seasonal and, potentially, pandemic influenza.