{"id":3455,"date":"2021-01-26T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2021-01-27T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:50:59","slug":"evaluation-of-seasonal-respiratory-virus-activity-before-and-after-the-statewide-covid-19-shelter-in-place-order-in-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/26\/evaluation-of-seasonal-respiratory-virus-activity-before-and-after-the-statewide-covid-19-shelter-in-place-order-in-northern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of Seasonal Respiratory Virus Activity Before and After the Statewide COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Order in Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infection rates for influenza and rhinovirus or enterovirus were significantly lower during March 25 to July 31, 2020 compared to the same time period during the past 5 years, according to a cohort study in California that included over 45,000 tests for the viral respiratory infections. This significant drop in infection rates coincided with implementation of shelter-in-place orders on March 19, 2020. Influenza infection rates decreased by 93%, while rhinovirus or enterovirus infection rates decreased by 81%. In contrast, infection rates for the portions of the 2020 respiratory virus season prior to March 25th were similar to rates for the same period over the past 5 years (30.4 vs 33.7 positive results per 100 tests).<\/p>\n<p><i>Partridge et al. (Jan 25, 2021). Evaluation of Seasonal Respiratory Virus Activity Before and After the Statewide COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Order in Northern California. JAMA Network Open. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.35281\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.35281<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infection rates for influenza and rhinovirus or enterovirus were significantly lower during March 25 to July 31, 2020 compared to the same time period during the past 5 years, according to a cohort study in California that included over 45,000 tests for the viral respiratory infections. This significant drop in infection rates coincided with implementation&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/26\/evaluation-of-seasonal-respiratory-virus-activity-before-and-after-the-statewide-covid-19-shelter-in-place-order-in-northern-california\/\">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":[158,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-flu","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}