1. Epidemiological characteristics of respiratory viruses in children during the COVID-19 epidemic in Chengdu, China.
- Author
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Gao Z-X, Wang Y, Yan L-Y, Liu T, and Peng L-W
- Subjects
- Child, Humans, SARS-CoV-2, Disease Outbreaks, Masks, COVID-19 epidemiology, Epidemics
- Abstract
Importance: During the coronavirus disease 2019 epidemic, the Chinese government launched and used a series of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including banning social gatherings, wearing face masks, home isolation, and maintaining hand hygiene, to control the disease spread. Whether and how NPIs influence other respiratory viruses in children remain unclear. In this article, we analyzed relative data and found that the number of samples and positive proportion of respiratory viruses decreased significantly compared with that before the epidemic. Clinicians and public health policymakers should pay attention to changes in the epidemic trends and types of respiratory viruses and maintain monitoring of respiratory-related viruses to avoid possible abnormal rebounds and epidemic outbreaks of these viruses., Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
- Published
- 2024
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