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. 2023 Mar 1;109(3):626-628.
doi: 10.1097/JS9.0000000000000225.

Was the COVID pandemic suppressing the outbreak of scarlet fever in the United Kingdom?: Correspondence

Qamar Sultana  1 , Vibhor Agrawal  2 , Vikash Jaiswal  3 , Aroop Mohanty  4 , Ranjit Sah  5   6
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Was the COVID pandemic suppressing the outbreak of scarlet fever in the United Kingdom?: Correspondence

Qamar Sultana et al. Int J Surg. .
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(a) A semilogarithmic representation of the comparison of the number of notifications of scarlet fever received from England in the past five seasons (data available from UK Health Security Agency, for recent weeks of 2022–2023 may change as further notifications are received). (b) A geospatial heatmap depicting the burden of disease in different regions of England and Wales for the week ending 18 December 2022 (data available from UK Health Security Agency).
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