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Editor, Senior Moderator
Am J Infect Control
. 2020 May 10;S0196-6553(20)30279-0.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.007. Online ahead of print.
Identifying Potential Undocumented COVID-19 Using Publicly Reported Influenza-Like-Illness and Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Disease in the United States: An Approach to Syndromic Surveillance?
Timothy L Wiemken[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Enbal Shacham[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
In the absence of widespread testing, syndromic surveillance approaches may be useful for understanding potential undocumented COVID-19 in the United States. We used publicly available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention FluView Interactive to evaluate its potential for COVID-19 syndromic surveillance. Unlike the prior three influenza seasons, we found a 76% decrease in influenza positive tests and a 27% increase in influenza like illness during the weeks since COVID-19 outbreaks began in the United States, which suggests FluView's potential utility for COVID-19 syndromic surveillance.
Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Influenza; Influenza like illness; SARS-CoV-2; Syndromic surveillance.
Copyright ? 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
. 2020 May 10;S0196-6553(20)30279-0.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.007. Online ahead of print.
Identifying Potential Undocumented COVID-19 Using Publicly Reported Influenza-Like-Illness and Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Disease in the United States: An Approach to Syndromic Surveillance?
Timothy L Wiemken[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Enbal Shacham[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32437754
- DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.007
Abstract
In the absence of widespread testing, syndromic surveillance approaches may be useful for understanding potential undocumented COVID-19 in the United States. We used publicly available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention FluView Interactive to evaluate its potential for COVID-19 syndromic surveillance. Unlike the prior three influenza seasons, we found a 76% decrease in influenza positive tests and a 27% increase in influenza like illness during the weeks since COVID-19 outbreaks began in the United States, which suggests FluView's potential utility for COVID-19 syndromic surveillance.
Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Influenza; Influenza like illness; SARS-CoV-2; Syndromic surveillance.
Copyright ? 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.