{"id":2214,"date":"2020-11-17T12:55:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:57:33","slug":"impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-invasive-pneumococcal-disease-and-risk-of-pneumococcal-coinfection-with-sars-cov-2-prospective-national-cohort-study-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/17\/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-invasive-pneumococcal-disease-and-risk-of-pneumococcal-coinfection-with-sars-cov-2-prospective-national-cohort-study-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and Risk of Pneumococcal Coinfection with SARS-CoV-2: Prospective National Cohort Study, England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A national cohort study in England found a 30% decline in invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) incidence across all age groups following COVID-19 lockdowns, similar to other reported reductions in bacterial and viral infections attributable to social distancing measures. Although IPD\/COVID-19 co-infections were rare (about 0.025% of SARS-CoV-2 infections), the case fatality rates were much higher than for COVID-19 or IPD alone, which could indicate a synergistic relationship between the two pathogens.<\/p>\n<p><i>Amin-Chowdhury et al. (Nov 16, 2020). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and Risk of Pneumococcal Coinfection with SARS-CoV-2: Prospective National Cohort Study, England. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1728\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1728<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national cohort study in England found a 30% decline in invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) incidence across all age groups following COVID-19 lockdowns, similar to other reported reductions in bacterial and viral infections attributable to social distancing measures. Although IPD\/COVID-19 co-infections were rare (about 0.025% of SARS-CoV-2 infections), the case fatality rates were much higher&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/17\/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-invasive-pneumococcal-disease-and-risk-of-pneumococcal-coinfection-with-sars-cov-2-prospective-national-cohort-study-england\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}