{"id":2479,"date":"2020-12-01T12:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2020-12-02T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:39:49","slug":"rapid-disappearance-of-influenza-following-the-implementation-of-covid-19-mitigation-measures-in-hamilton-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/01\/rapid-disappearance-of-influenza-following-the-implementation-of-covid-19-mitigation-measures-in-hamilton-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Disappearance of Influenza Following the Implementation of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in Hamilton Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/i> Following population-wide implementation of COVID-19 interventions in Hamilton, Ontario, the proportion of samples that tested positive for influenza A and B dropped rapidly to 0% by the week of March 15-21. During the 2010-2019 influenza seasons, the proportion of positive tests reached 0% on a median of the week of May 30-June 6. Data were collected from all nasopharyngeal swab specimens (n=57,503) submitted for routine respiratory virus testing between January 2010 and June 2020.<\/p>\n<p><i>Zhang et al. (Nov 30, 2020). Rapid Disappearance of Influenza Following the Implementation of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in Hamilton Ontario. Pre-print downloaded Dec 1 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.27.20240036\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.27.20240036<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Following population-wide implementation of COVID-19 interventions in Hamilton, Ontario, the proportion of samples that tested positive for influenza A and B dropped rapidly to 0% by the week of March 15-21. During the 2010-2019 influenza seasons, the proportion of positive tests reached 0% on a median of the week of May&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/01\/rapid-disappearance-of-influenza-following-the-implementation-of-covid-19-mitigation-measures-in-hamilton-ontario\/\">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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","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=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}