Preventing influenza and influenza like illness during Covid-19 pandemic: A call for action

Affiliations

¹ Unit of Occupational Prevention and Protection, ASL Lecce, Lecce, Italy.
² Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy; Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: giancarlo.ceccarelli@uniroma1.it.
³ Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁴ Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology Unit, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy; Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Gabriele d'Ettorre et al. Early Hum Dev. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun:169:105156.

doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105156. Epub 2020 Aug 12.

¹ Unit of Occupational Prevention and Protection, ASL Lecce, Lecce, Italy.
² Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy; Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: giancarlo.ceccarelli@uniroma1.it.
³ Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁴ Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology Unit, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy; Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests.

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