Where has all the influenza gone? The impact of COVID-19 on the circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses, Australia, March to September 2020

Author:

Sullivan Sheena G1,Carlson Sandra2,Cheng Allen C34,Chilver Monique BN5,Dwyer Dominic E6,Irwin Melissa7,Kok Jen6,Macartney Kristine89,MacLachlan Jennifer10,Minney-Smith Cara11,Smith David1211,Stocks Nigel5,Taylor Janette6,Barr Ian G13

Affiliation:

1. WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Doherty Department, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia

2. FluTracking, Hunter New England Population Health, Newcastle, Australia

3. Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Health, and Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

4. School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

5. Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

6. Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, New South Wales Health Pathology - Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia

7. Rapid Surveillance, Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health, Sydney, Australia

8. Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

9. National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance and The Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney, Australia

10. WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, Royal Melbourne Hospital at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia

11. PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, Australia

12. Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

13. WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

The coronavirus disease pandemic was declared in March 2020, as the southern hemisphere’s winter approached. Australia expected co-circulation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, influenza and other seasonal respiratory viruses. However, influenza notifications were 7,029 (March–September) compared with an average 149,832 for the same period in 2015–2019*, despite substantial testing. Restrictions on movement within and into Australia may have temporarily eliminated influenza. Other respiratory pathogens also showed remarkably changed activity in 2020.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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