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Very little influenza in the WHO European Region during the 2020/21 season, weeks 40 2020 to 8 2021

Adlhoch, Cornelia ; Mook, Piers ; Lamb, Favelle ; Ferland, Lisa ; Melidou, Angeliki ; Amato-Gauci, Andrew j and Pebody, Richard (2021) In Eurosurveillance 26(11).
Abstract
Between weeks 40 2020 and 8 2021, the World Health Organization European Region experienced a 99.8% reduction in sentinel influenza virus positive detections (33/25,606 tested; 0.1%) relative to an average of 14,966/39,407 (38.0%; p < 0.001) over the same time in the previous six seasons. COVID-19 pandemic public health and physical distancing measures may have extinguished the 2020/21 European seasonal influenza epidemic with just a few sporadic detections of all viral subtypes. This might possibly continue during the remainder of the influenza season.
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10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.11.2100221
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