{"id":8592,"date":"2020-07-30T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8592"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:19:04","slug":"excess-cases-of-influenza-and-the-coronavirus-epidemic-in-catalonia-a-time-series-analysis-of-primary-care-electronic-medical-records-covering-over-6-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/30\/excess-cases-of-influenza-and-the-coronavirus-epidemic-in-catalonia-a-time-series-analysis-of-primary-care-electronic-medical-records-covering-over-6-million-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Excess Cases of Influenza and the Coronavirus Epidemic in Catalonia: A Time-Series Analysis of Primary-Care Electronic Medical Records Covering over 6 Million People"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a time-series study of influenza and COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cases in Spain,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Coma Redon et al. found that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 cases may have\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">already\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">been present in the Catalan population when the first imported case was reported on February\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">25,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2020.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors suggest that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 carriers may have been misclassified as influenza diagnoses in primary care, b<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">oosting community transmission before public health measures were taken.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Coma Redon et al. (July<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a029,<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a02020). Excess Cases of Influenza and the Coronavirus Epidemic in Catalonia: A Time-Series Analysis of Primary-Care Electronic Medical Records Covering over 6 Million People. BMJ Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2020-039369\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2020-039369<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a time-series study of influenza and COVID-19\u00a0cases in Spain,\u00a0Coma Redon et al. found that\u00a0COVID-19 cases may have\u00a0already\u00a0been present in the Catalan population when the first imported case was reported on February\u00a025,\u00a02020.\u00a0The authors suggest that\u00a0COVID-19 carriers may have been misclassified as influenza diagnoses in primary care, boosting community transmission before public health measures were taken.\u00a0\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/30\/excess-cases-of-influenza-and-the-coronavirus-epidemic-in-catalonia-a-time-series-analysis-of-primary-care-electronic-medical-records-covering-over-6-million-people\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8593,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions\/8593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}