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Human Mobility and Droplet-Transmissible Pediatric Infectious Diseases during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The study tested the hypothesis that human mobility may be a potential factor affecting reductions in droplet-transmissible pediatric infectious diseases (PIDs) during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic mitigation period in 2020. An ecological study was conducted using two publicly ava...

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Autores principales: Ae, Ryusuke, Shibata, Yoshihide, Furuno, Toshiki, Sasahara, Teppei, Nakamura, Yosikazu, Hamada, Hiromichi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9180602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35682525
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116941
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author Ae, Ryusuke
Shibata, Yoshihide
Furuno, Toshiki
Sasahara, Teppei
Nakamura, Yosikazu
Hamada, Hiromichi
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Shibata, Yoshihide
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description The study tested the hypothesis that human mobility may be a potential factor affecting reductions in droplet-transmissible pediatric infectious diseases (PIDs) during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic mitigation period in 2020. An ecological study was conducted using two publicly available datasets: surveillance on infectious diseases collected by the Japanese government and COVID-19 community mobility reports presented by Google. The COVID-19 community mobility reports demonstrated percentage reductions in the movement of people over time in groceries and pharmacies, parks, and transit stations. We compared the weekly trends in the number of patients with droplet-transmissible PIDs identified in 2020 with those identified in the previous years (2015–2019) and assessed the correlations between the numbers of patients and percentage decreases in human mobility during 2020. Despite experiencing their peak seasons, dramatic reductions were found in the numbers of patients with pharyngoconjunctival fever (PCF) and group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis after the tenth week of 2020. Beyond the 20th week, no seasonal peaks were observed in the number of patients with all PIDs identified in 2020. Significant correlations were found between the percentage decreases in human mobility in transit stations and the number of patients with hand-foot-and-mouth disease (Pearson correlation coefficient [95% confidence interval]: 0.65 [0.44–0.79]), PCF (0.47 [0.21–0.67]), respiratory syncytial virus infection (0.45 [0.19–0.66]), and GAS pharyngitis (0.34 [0.06–0.58]). The highest correlations were found in places underlying potential human-to-human contacts among adults. These findings suggest that reductions in human mobility for adults might contribute to decreases in the number of children with droplet-transmissible PIDs by the potential prevention of adult-to-child transmission.
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spelling pubmed-91806022022-06-10 Human Mobility and Droplet-Transmissible Pediatric Infectious Diseases during the COVID-19 Pandemic Ae, Ryusuke Shibata, Yoshihide Furuno, Toshiki Sasahara, Teppei Nakamura, Yosikazu Hamada, Hiromichi Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The study tested the hypothesis that human mobility may be a potential factor affecting reductions in droplet-transmissible pediatric infectious diseases (PIDs) during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic mitigation period in 2020. An ecological study was conducted using two publicly available datasets: surveillance on infectious diseases collected by the Japanese government and COVID-19 community mobility reports presented by Google. The COVID-19 community mobility reports demonstrated percentage reductions in the movement of people over time in groceries and pharmacies, parks, and transit stations. We compared the weekly trends in the number of patients with droplet-transmissible PIDs identified in 2020 with those identified in the previous years (2015–2019) and assessed the correlations between the numbers of patients and percentage decreases in human mobility during 2020. Despite experiencing their peak seasons, dramatic reductions were found in the numbers of patients with pharyngoconjunctival fever (PCF) and group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis after the tenth week of 2020. Beyond the 20th week, no seasonal peaks were observed in the number of patients with all PIDs identified in 2020. Significant correlations were found between the percentage decreases in human mobility in transit stations and the number of patients with hand-foot-and-mouth disease (Pearson correlation coefficient [95% confidence interval]: 0.65 [0.44–0.79]), PCF (0.47 [0.21–0.67]), respiratory syncytial virus infection (0.45 [0.19–0.66]), and GAS pharyngitis (0.34 [0.06–0.58]). The highest correlations were found in places underlying potential human-to-human contacts among adults. These findings suggest that reductions in human mobility for adults might contribute to decreases in the number of children with droplet-transmissible PIDs by the potential prevention of adult-to-child transmission. MDPI 2022-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9180602/ /pubmed/35682525 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116941 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Hamada, Hiromichi
Human Mobility and Droplet-Transmissible Pediatric Infectious Diseases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_fullStr Human Mobility and Droplet-Transmissible Pediatric Infectious Diseases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Human Mobility and Droplet-Transmissible Pediatric Infectious Diseases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Human Mobility and Droplet-Transmissible Pediatric Infectious Diseases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort human mobility and droplet-transmissible pediatric infectious diseases during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9180602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35682525
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116941
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