Seasonal influenza activity in young children before the COVID‐19 outbreak in Wuhan, China

The activity of influenza A at the end of 2019 was higher than previous two years in children younger than 6 years old in Wuhan, China. The 2019–2020 winter peak of seasonal influenza preceded the COVID‐19 outbreak, with a higher and earlier peak than those of the 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 seasons. We speculate this could be due to the earlier CNY holiday season in 2019–2020 than in previous two years. We compared these results with those of two previous studies to further discuss the possible interference between influenza and COVID‐19 in young children.