Influenza incidence overlapped with COVID-19 or under COVID-19 control measures.

Azad Shokri Ghobad Moradi Farhad Moradpour Amjad Mohamadi Bolbanabad Fatemeh Younesi Parisa Daftarifard Ali Ebrazeh

Published in: Immunity, inflammation and disease (2022)

It seems that some of the nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) used to control COVID-19 are effective against influenza epidemics and the results indicated a marked decline in the number of influenza cases may cause after the implementation of public health measures for COVID-19. The results showed the seasonal peak of influenza in Iran was significantly higher than that of previous years, so it seems that the influenza winter peak season (November 2019) overlapped with SARS-CoV-2 causing observed undetected infection during influenza winter peak.

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