{"id":8979,"date":"2020-08-11T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:05:53","slug":"effect-of-social-distancing-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-the-incidence-of-viral-respiratory-tract-infections-in-children-in-finland-during-early-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/effect-of-social-distancing-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-the-incidence-of-viral-respiratory-tract-infections-in-children-in-finland-during-early-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of Social Distancing Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Incidence of Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in Children in Finland During Early 2020"},"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\">A<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n assessment of the immediate effects of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">national lockdown orders on pediatric emergency\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">room<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0visits and respiratory tract infections in Finland<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">indicate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that social\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">distancing and other lockdown strategies slow<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the spreading of common respiratory viral diseases and decreas<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the need for hospitalization among children<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A major decrease in the rate of daily median pediatric\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">emergency room<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">visits was detected in both hospitals in the study during the nationwide lockdown compared with the study period before the lockdown<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No pediatric cases of COVID-19 were found in participating hospitals during the study period.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kuitunen et al. (July\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">28,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Effect of Social Distancing Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Incidence of Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in Children in Finland During Early 2020. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/INF.0000000000002845\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/INF.0000000000002845<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assessment of the immediate effects of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0national lockdown orders on pediatric emergency\u00a0room\u00a0visits and respiratory tract infections in Finland\u00a0indicates\u00a0that social\u00a0distancing and other lockdown strategies slowed\u00a0the spreading of common respiratory viral diseases and decreased\u00a0the need for hospitalization among children.\u00a0A major decrease in the rate of daily median pediatric\u00a0emergency room\u00a0visits was detected in both hospitals in the study&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/effect-of-social-distancing-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-the-incidence-of-viral-respiratory-tract-infections-in-children-in-finland-during-early-2020\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","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=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8980,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}