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. 2020 Dec;20(12):3681-3685.
doi: 10.1111/ajt.16381.

Decreased influenza activity during the COVID-19 pandemic-United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020

Sonja J Olsen  1 , Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner  1 , Alicia P Budd  1 , Lynnette Brammer  1 , Sheena Sullivan  2 , Rodrigo F Pineda  3 , Cheryl Cohen  4   5 , Alicia M Fry  1
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Decreased influenza activity during the COVID-19 pandemic-United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020

Sonja J Olsen et al. Am J Transplant. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

Transplant recipients are among the groups for whom the updated recommendations for 2020–2021 influenza vaccination should generally be considered essential, notably in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Number of respiratory specimens tested and percentage testing positive for influenza, by year — United States, 2016–17 through 2019–20 seasons. Source: FluView Interactive. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluviewinteractive.htm. Abbreviation: PP, percentage positive
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Number of specimens tested and percentage testing positive for influenza, by year—Australia, Chile, and South Africa, April–August (weeks 14–31), 2017–20. Source: FluNet. https://www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/flunet/en/. Abbreviation: PP, percentage positive
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