Impact of non-pharmacological interventions on incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: a large population-based observational study
Wanwan Ma, Xue Li, Na Wang, Jiabing Wu, Yongkang Xiao, Sai Hou, Niannian Bi, Lei Gong, Fen Huang · 2024
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Wanwan Ma and co-authors study whether COVID-19 control steps also cut cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease. Their 2024 study uses health records from Anhui Province in China from 2015 to 2020. The childhood illness spreads much like COVID-19, so shared steps could curb both.
A time-series model predicted how many cases would have occurred with no pandemic steps. In the weeks when strong steps ran in 2020, observed cases fell by about ninety-five percent from the expected count. Roughly seventeen thousand cases were thus avoided. Drops were alike for boys and girls and across age groups. The authors urge such steps for future control of gut-borne outbreaks in children.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wanwan Ma, Xue Li, Na Wang, Jiabing Wu, Yongkang Xiao, Sai Hou, Niannian Bi, Lei Gong, Fen Huang |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |