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. 2021 Dec;110(12):3327-3328.
doi: 10.1111/apa.16061. Epub 2021 Aug 12.

COVID-19 restrictions probably brought the 2019-2020 Finnish influenza season to an early end and led to fewer respiratory viruses among infants

Sallamaria Kelloniemi  1 , Paula Heikkilä  2 , Sauli Palmu  2
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COVID-19 restrictions probably brought the 2019-2020 Finnish influenza season to an early end and led to fewer respiratory viruses among infants

Sallamaria Kelloniemi et al. Acta Paediatr. 2021 Dec.
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The authors have no conflicts of interest.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Number of patients with positive results in nasopharyngeal swab specimens collected prospectively from 117 infants under 12 months of age treated in the Paediatric Emergency Department of Tampere University Hospital during weeks 52/2019 to 22/2020. We used a Cobas Influenza A/B & RSV polymerase chain reaction test. The arrow indicates the start of the COVID‐19 lockdown in Finland
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