Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

July 14, 2020

Collateral Benefit of COVID-19 Control Measures on Influenza Activity, Taiwan

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  • Nationwide surveillance in Taiwan indicates that measures intended to control COVID-19 may have also resulted in decreases in influenza diagnoses in outpatient departments, positivity rates in clinical specimens, and confirmed severe cases during the first 12 weeks of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. Healthcare avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic may be an important confounder. 

Kuo et al. (Apr 27, 2020). Collateral Benefit of COVID-19 Control Measures on Influenza Activity, Taiwan. Emerging Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2608.201192