Respiratory virus detection during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Queensland, Australia

• Published in: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 10 - 15
• Main Authors: El‐Heneidy, Asmaa, Ware, Robert S., Robson, Jennifer M., Cherian, Sarah G., Lambert, Stephen B., Grimwood, Keith
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier B.V 01.02.2022; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Elsevier Limited; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Elsevier
• Subjects: Australia; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Diagnosis; Epidemics; Health aspects; Humans; Identification and classification; Influence; Influenza; Influenza, Human - epidemiology; Laboratories; non‐pharmaceutical interventions; Pandemics; Parainfluenza; Public health; Queensland - epidemiology; Respiratory syncytial virus; Respiratory tract diseases; Respiratory Tract Infections - diagnosis; Respiratory Tract Infections - epidemiology; respiratory viruses; Rhinovirus; SARS-CoV-2; Schools; Viruses; Australia; Queensland; Queensland Australia; Western Australia Australia; influenza; COVID‐19; respiratory viruses; SARS‐CoV‐2; non‐pharmaceutical interventions; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; non-pharmaceutical interventions

To determine if non‐pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) impacted on respiratory virus detections in Queensland, Australia, during the COVID‐19 pandemic year of 2020. We analysed weekly counts of influenza, human metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and adenovirus...