Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures on the Incidence of Peritonsillar Abscess: A Retrospective Study
Peter Kiss, Ulrich Moser, Michael Habenbacher, Katharina Walla, Jakob Pock, Alexandros Andrianakis · 2024
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Peter Kiss and five co-authors ask whether COVID lockdowns cut cases of peritonsillar abscess, a painful throat infection, in a study published in two thousand twenty-four. Austria's spring lockdown in two thousand twenty brought distancing and strict hygiene. The team counted all cases treated at a Graz hospital from two thousand ten to two thousand twenty, a total of one thousand seven hundred sixty-eight patients.
The lockdown weeks of two thousand twenty held a far smaller share of that year's cases than the same weeks in past years: about twelve percent against a past average of twenty-two. Each past year beat two thousand twenty in that window. The authors credit the lockdown steps for the drop and say such measures ripple into other infections too.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Peter Kiss, Ulrich Moser, Michael Habenbacher, Katharina Walla, Jakob Pock, Alexandros Andrianakis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |