{"id":971,"date":"2020-09-17T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=971"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:10:51","slug":"decreased-influenza-activity-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-australia-chile-and-south-africa-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/decreased-influenza-activity-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-australia-chile-and-south-africa-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Decreased Influenza Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There was a 61% decrease in the US in the number of respiratory specimens submitted for influenza testing during the COVID-19 pandemic (49,696 per week during September 29, 2019\u2013February 29, 2020 vs. 19,537 during March 1\u2013May 16, 2020). The rate of test positive decreased by 98% (19% vs. 0.3%) and has remained at historically low inter-seasonal levels (0.2% in 2020 vs. 1\u20132% in 2017-2019). The authors state that some of the mitigation measures for the COVID-19 pandemic might have a role in preventing influenza in future seasons, but that influenza vaccination of all persons aged \u22656 months remains especially important in the United States this fall and winter when SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus might co-circulate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Olsen et al. (Sept 18, 2020). Decreased Influenza Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6937a6\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6937a6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a 61% decrease in the US in the number of respiratory specimens submitted for influenza testing during the COVID-19 pandemic (49,696 per week during September 29, 2019\u2013February 29, 2020 vs. 19,537 during March 1\u2013May 16, 2020). The rate of test positive decreased by 98% (19% vs. 0.3%) and has remained at historically low&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/decreased-influenza-activity-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-australia-chile-and-south-africa-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-971","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\/971","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}