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Comment
. 2022 Sep;77(3):896-897.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.04.015. Epub 2021 Apr 20.

Decrease in viral hepatitis diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

Milan J Sonneveld  1 , Irene K Veldhuijzen  2 , Thijs J W van de Laar  3 , Eline L M Op de Coul  4 , Adriaan J van der Meer  4
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Decrease in viral hepatitis diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

Milan J Sonneveld et al. J Hepatol. 2022 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; HBV; HCV.

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Fig. 1
COVID-19 admissions and HBV/HCV diagnoses in the Netherlands. The number of COVID-19 admissions in the Netherlands per week in 2020 (upper panel) and the reduction in the number of weekly reported new chronic HBV and HCV diagnoses in 2020 compared to the same week in 2019 (lower panel, with weekly reported cases in grey and the moving average in dashed black).
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