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. 2021 Oct;21(10):3481-3486.
doi: 10.1111/ajt.16049.

Changes in influenza and other respiratory virus activity during the COVID-19 pandemic-United States, 2020-2021

Sonja J Olsen  1 , Amber K Winn  2 , Alicia P Budd  1 , Mila M Prill  2 , John Steel  1 , Claire M Midgley  2 , Krista Kniss  1 , Erin Burns  1 , Thomas Rowe  1 , Angela Foust  1 , Gabriela Jasso  1 , Angiezel Merced-Morales  1 , C Todd Davis  1 , Yunho Jang  1 , Joyce Jones  1 , Peter Daly  1 , Larisa Gubareva  1 , John Barnes  1 , Rebecca Kondor  1 , Wendy Sessions  1 , Catherine Smith  1 , David E Wentworth  1 , Shikha Garg  1 , Fiona P Havers  2 , Alicia M Fry  1 , Aron J Hall  2 , Lynnette Brammer  1 , Benjamin J Silk  2
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Changes in influenza and other respiratory virus activity during the COVID-19 pandemic-United States, 2020-2021

Sonja J Olsen et al. Am J Transplant. 2021 Oct.
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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Number of specimens tested and the percentage of positive tests for influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus, common human coronaviruses, parainfluenza viruses, human metapneumovirus, respiratory adenoviruses, and rhinoviruses/enteroviruses, by year—United States, 2016–2021
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Percentage of specimens testing positive for influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus, common human coronaviruses, parainfluenza viruses, human metapneumovirus, respiratory adenoviruses, and rhinoviruses/enteroviruses, by month—United States, 2016–2017 through 2020–2021
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