Changes in notifiable infectious disease incidence in China during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 6923
• Main Authors: Geng, Meng-Jie, Zhang, Hai-Yang, Yu, Lin-Jie, Lv, Chen-Long, Wang, Tao, Che, Tian-Le, Xu, Qiang, Jiang, Bao-Gui, Chen, Jin-Jin, Hay, Simon I., Li, Zhong-Jie, Gao, George F., Wang, Li-Ping, Yang, Yang, Fang, Li-Qun, Liu, Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 26.11.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 692/699/255/1318; 692/699/255/2514; 692/700/478/174; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease transmission; Hand-foot-and-mouth disease; Human motion; Humanities and Social Sciences; Infectious diseases; Mathematical models; multidisciplinary; Pandemics; Public health; Respiratory diseases; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Statistical models; Vector-borne diseases; Viral diseases; Zoonoses; China

Nationwide nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been effective at mitigating the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), but their broad impact on other diseases remains under-investigated. Here we report an ecological analysis comparing the incidence of 31 major notifiable infect...