Human seasonal influenza under COVID-19 and the potential consequences of influenza lineage elimination

V Dhanasekaran, S Sullivan, KM Edwards… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Annual epidemics of seasonal influenza cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, high levels
of morbidity, and substantial economic loss. Yet, global influenza circulation has been …

Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?

M Koutsakos, AK Wheatley, K Laurie, SJ Kent… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has seen a notable global reduction in influenza cases of both
influenza A and B viruses. In particular, the B/Yamagata lineage has not been isolated from …

Understanding the rebound of influenza in the post COVID-19 pandemic period holds important clues for epidemiology and control

SS Lee, C Viboud, E Petersen - International Journal of Infectious …, 2022 - ijidonline.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated global perturbations in our daily lives that are
unprecedented in scale. Since early 2020, changes in contact patterns and mobility have …

The missing season: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza

CM Zipfel, V Colizza, S Bansal - Vaccine, 2021 - Elsevier
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many have worried that the additional burden of
seasonal influenza would create a devastating scenario, resulting in overwhelmed …

COVID-19 and the next influenza season

BD Singer - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Even in nonpandemic years, influenza and other etiologies of pneumonia represent the
eighth leading cause of death in the United States, and respiratory viruses are the most …

Influenza returns with a season dominated by clade 3C. 2a1b. 2a. 2 A (H3N2) viruses, WHO European Region, 2021/22

A Melidou, C Ködmön, K Nahapetyan… - …, 2022 - eurosurveillance.org
In the WHO European Region, COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions continued
slowing influenza circulation in the 2021/22 season, with reduced characterisation data. A …

Epidemiological and virological surveillance of influenza viruses in China during 2020–2021

W Huang, Y Cheng, M Tan, J Liu, X Li, X Zeng… - Infectious diseases of …, 2022 - Springer
Background During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, seasonal
influenza activity declined globally and remained below previous seasonal levels, but …

Influenza's unprecedented low profile during COVID-19 pandemic leaves experts wondering what this flu season has in store

R Rubin - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Afeared “twindemic”—an influenza epidemic wrapped in a COVID-19 pandemic—never
materialized, much to the relief of critical care specialists and their hospitals' administrators …

Increased lethality in influenza and SARS-CoV-2 coinfection is prevented by influenza immunity but not SARS-CoV-2 immunity

H Achdout, EB Vitner, B Politi, S Melamed… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of the ongoing
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The continued spread of SARS-CoV-2 …

Many potential pathways to future pandemic influenza

DM Morens, J Park, JK Taubenberger - Science Translational Medicine, 2023 - science.org
Although influenza A viruses have caused pandemics for centuries, future pandemics
cannot be predicted with our current understanding and resources. Concern about an H5N1 …