Rapid decline of seasonal influenza during the outbreak of COVID-19

Grant Young; Xiaohua Peng; Andre Rebeza; Santos Bermejo; Chang De; Lokesh Sharma; Charles S Dela Cruz

doi:10.1183/23120541.00296-2020

Rapid decline of seasonal influenza during the outbreak of COVID-19

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Aug 17;6(3):00296-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00296-2020. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Authors

Grant Young^{1

2}, Xiaohua Peng^{1

2}, Andre Rebeza³, Santos Bermejo¹, Chang De⁴, Lokesh Sharma^{1

5}, Charles S Dela Cruz^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Yale School of Medicine, Dept of Internal Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
² Joint first authors.
³ Yale School of Medicine, Dept of Internal Medicine, Section of Pediatrics, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴ College of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
⁵ Joint senior authors.

Abstract

The implementation of public health measures during the #COVID19 pandemic may also help to reduce transmission of respiratory illnesses such as influenza https://bit.ly/2BmysRJ.

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States