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. 2022 Mar 9;74(5):901-904.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab529.

Reporting of Infectious Diseases in the United States During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Matthew A Crane  1   2   3 , Aleksandra Popovic  1 , Rohan Panaparambil  1 , Andrew I Stolbach  4 , John A Romley  2   5   6 , Khalil G Ghanem  7
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Reporting of Infectious Diseases in the United States During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Matthew A Crane et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Reporting of infectious diseases other than COVID-19 has been greatly decreased throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We find this decrease varies by routes of transmission, reporting state, and COVID-19 incidence at the time of reporting. These results underscore the need for continual investment in routine surveillance efforts despite pandemic conditions.

Keywords: COVID-19; disease reporting; epidemiology; infectious diseases; transmission patterns.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Nationally Notifiable Disease Reporting in the United States, 2019–2020. Panel A shows relative change in 2020 compared with 2019 for the year-end cumulative count of all reported cases within each route of transmission. Panel B shows relative change between weekly new provisional cases in 2020 compared with 2019, as reported by end date of epidemiological week. Relative change is shown as a moving 5-week average of the difference between epidemiologic weeks in 2020 compared with 2019. The second vertical axis shows the moving 7-day average of new daily COVID-19 cases reported nationally in 2020 [7]. The final epidemiologic week of 2020 (week 53) is not shown in the figure. Some data were excluded in the panel for vectorborne diseases prior to week 2 and injection drug use–associated diseases prior to week 2, and at week 5 due to minor reporting abnormalities resulting in an excessive relative difference. Panel C shows the diseases with the largest relative and absolute decreases in year-end cumulative count of reported cases in 2020 compared with 2019. COVID-19 is not tabulated among other nationally notifiable infectious diseases in this panel. Panel D shows relative change in 2020 compared with 2019 for the year-end cumulative count of all reported cases of all routes of transmission by all 50 US states. The District of Columbia is not pictured. Abbreviation: COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.
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