Trend of hand, foot and mouth disease before, during, and after China’s COVID control policies in Zhejiang, China
Zheyuan Ding, Qinbao Lu, Haocheng Wu, Chen Wu, Junfen Lin, Xinyi Wang, Tianying Fu, Ke Yang, Queping Song · 2024
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Zheyuan Ding and colleagues trace how China's COVID control policies bent the curve of a different disease: hand, foot and mouth disease in Zhejiang Province. The childhood enterovirus illness normally peaks each spring and summer. The team collected a decade of case data and compared case composition and weekly seasonality across control stages, using interrupted time-series regression to estimate policy effects.
Cases skewed toward children living separately from parents, and the usual spring-summer peak simply did not occur in twenty twenty. The disease's biennial peak periodicity was disrupted for a year, and the twenty twenty-three summer peak ran higher than in other years. During strict control, the shares of kindergarten children and two-to-four-year-olds were relatively low, consistent with closures suppressing transmission. Pathogens shifted too, with enteroviruses other than the two classic types becoming dominant in increasing proportion.
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| CREATOR | Zheyuan Ding, Qinbao Lu, Haocheng Wu, Chen Wu, Junfen Lin, Xinyi Wang, Tianying Fu, Ke Yang, Queping Song |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |