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. 2021 Jan;27(1):306-308.
doi: 10.3201/eid2701.203394. Epub 2020 Dec 1.

Nonpolio Enterovirus Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, 2020

Shu-Chen Kuo, Hsiao-Hui Tsou, Hsiao-Yu Wu, Ya-Ting Hsu, Fang-Jing Lee, Shu-Man Shih, Chao A Hsiung, Wei J Chen

Nonpolio Enterovirus Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, 2020

Shu-Chen Kuo et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Jan.

Abstract

In Taiwan, lower nonpolio enterovirus activity during the coronavirus disease pandemic in 2020 compared with 2014-2019 might be attributable to adherence to nonpharmaceutical interventions. The preventable fraction among unexposed persons indicated that 90% of nonpolio enterovirus activity might have been prevented during 2014-2019 by adopting the same measures enforced in 2020.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus disease; interventions; nonpharmaceutical; nonpolio enterovirus; preventable fraction; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.

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Nonpolio enterovirus activity during 2019–20 season compared with the same weeks in the previous 5 seasons in patients <15 years of age, Taiwan. The y-axis represents the number of outpatient department and emergency department visits in which a diagnosis of hand, foot and mouth disease or herpangina was made for patients <15 years of age.
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