Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico

INTRODUCTION: Impacts of COVID-19 mitigation measures on seasonal respiratory viruses is unknown in sub-tropical climates. METHODS: We compared weekly testing and test-positivity of respiratory infections in the 2019–2020 respiratory season to the 2012–2018 seasons in southern Puerto Rico using Wilc...

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Autores principales: Quandelacy, Talia M., Adams, Laura E., Munoz, Jorge, Santiago, Gilberto A., Kada, Sarah, Johansson, Michael A., Alvarado, Luisa I., Rivera-Amill, Vanessa, Paz–Bailey, Gabriela
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9045654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35476785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266095
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author Quandelacy, Talia M.
Adams, Laura E.
Munoz, Jorge
Santiago, Gilberto A.
Kada, Sarah
Johansson, Michael A.
Alvarado, Luisa I.
Rivera-Amill, Vanessa
Paz–Bailey, Gabriela
author_facet Quandelacy, Talia M.
Adams, Laura E.
Munoz, Jorge
Santiago, Gilberto A.
Kada, Sarah
Johansson, Michael A.
Alvarado, Luisa I.
Rivera-Amill, Vanessa
Paz–Bailey, Gabriela
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description INTRODUCTION: Impacts of COVID-19 mitigation measures on seasonal respiratory viruses is unknown in sub-tropical climates. METHODS: We compared weekly testing and test-positivity of respiratory infections in the 2019–2020 respiratory season to the 2012–2018 seasons in southern Puerto Rico using Wilcoxon signed rank tests. RESULTS: Compared to the average for the 2012–2018 seasons, test-positivity was significantly lower for Influenza A (p<0.001) & B (p<0.001), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (p<0.01), respiratory adenovirus (AdV) (p<0.05), and other respiratory viruses (p<0.001) following March 2020 COVID-19 stay at home orders. CONCLUSIONS: Mitigation measures and behavioral social distancing choices may have reduced respiratory viral spread in southern Puerto Rico.
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spelling pubmed-90456542022-04-28 Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico Quandelacy, Talia M. Adams, Laura E. Munoz, Jorge Santiago, Gilberto A. Kada, Sarah Johansson, Michael A. Alvarado, Luisa I. Rivera-Amill, Vanessa Paz–Bailey, Gabriela PLoS One Research Article INTRODUCTION: Impacts of COVID-19 mitigation measures on seasonal respiratory viruses is unknown in sub-tropical climates. METHODS: We compared weekly testing and test-positivity of respiratory infections in the 2019–2020 respiratory season to the 2012–2018 seasons in southern Puerto Rico using Wilcoxon signed rank tests. RESULTS: Compared to the average for the 2012–2018 seasons, test-positivity was significantly lower for Influenza A (p<0.001) & B (p<0.001), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (p<0.01), respiratory adenovirus (AdV) (p<0.05), and other respiratory viruses (p<0.001) following March 2020 COVID-19 stay at home orders. CONCLUSIONS: Mitigation measures and behavioral social distancing choices may have reduced respiratory viral spread in southern Puerto Rico. Public Library of Science 2022-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9045654/ /pubmed/35476785 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266095 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication.
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Quandelacy, Talia M.
Adams, Laura E.
Munoz, Jorge
Santiago, Gilberto A.
Kada, Sarah
Johansson, Michael A.
Alvarado, Luisa I.
Rivera-Amill, Vanessa
Paz–Bailey, Gabriela
Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico
title Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico
title_full Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico
title_fullStr Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico
title_full_unstemmed Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico
title_short Reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Puerto Rico
title_sort reduced spread of influenza and other respiratory viral infections during the covid-19 pandemic in southern puerto rico
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9045654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35476785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266095
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