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. 2022 Oct;94(10):4588-4590.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.27922. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

Dual impacts of the COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on other infectious diseases

Yi-Qing Chen  1 , Yu-Fei Ji  2 , Ji-Ming Chen  2
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Dual impacts of the COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on other infectious diseases

Yi-Qing Chen et al. J Med Virol. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

  1. 1.

    COVID nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) impacted on other infectious diseases.

  2. 2.

    The impacts on 36 infectious diseases in China were calculated.

  3. 3.

    COVID NPIs increased the incidences of some infectious diseases.

  4. 4.

    COVID NPIs reduced the incidences of some other infectious diseases.

  5. 5.

    The impacts were calculated with optimized methods.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Integration of three previous opinions shown by blue arrows into our statistics‐supported opinion.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Changes in the relative incidences (RIs) in red lines and their first‐order differences (FoDs) in blue bars of 36 infectious diseases in China in 2011−2021. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, red asterisks significant increase compared with the years 2011−2019, and black asterisks significant decline compared with the years 2011−2019. The asterisks near the abscissa are for the blue bars, and the asterisks near the red squares are for the red squares.
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