Volume 27, Number 1—January 2021
Research Letter
Nonpolio Enterovirus Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, 2020
Shu-Chen Kuo1
, Hsiao-Hui Tsou1, Hsiao-Yu Wu, Ya-Ting Hsu, Fang-Jing Lee, Shu-Man Shih, Chao A. Hsiung, and Wei J. Chen1
, Hsiao-Hui Tsou1, Hsiao-Yu Wu, Ya-Ting Hsu, Fang-Jing Lee, Shu-Man Shih, Chao A. Hsiung, and Wei J. Chen1
Table
Weekly estimated PFu during calendar weeks 16–23 in 2020 compared with the same weeks in the previous 5 seasons in patients <15 years of age, by age group, Taiwan*
| Calendar week | Estimated PFu (95% CI) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 0–2 y | 3–4 y | 5–9 y | 10–14 y | |
| 16 | 0.73 (0.67–0.78) | 0.55 (0.46–0.63) | 0.76 (0.70–0.81) | 0.78 (0.73–0.83) | 0.74 (0.68–0.79) |
| 17 | 0.76 (0.72–0.80) | 0.61 (0.54–0.67) | 0.79 (0.75–0.82) | 0.81 (0.77–0.85) | 0.78 (0.73–0.81) |
| 18 | 0.79 (0.76–0.82) | 0.66 (0.61–0.70) | 0.82 (0.79–0.84) | 0.84 (0.81–0.86) | 0.81 (0.78–0.83) |
| 19 | 0.82 (0.80–0.84) | 0.70 (0.67–0.73) | 0.84 (0.82–0.86) | 0.86 (0.84–0.88) | 0.83 (0.81–0.85) |
| 20 | 0.84 (0.82–0.86) | 0.74 (0.71–0.76) | 0.86 (0.84–0.88) | 0.88 (0.86–0.89) | 0.86 (0.84–0.87) |
| 21 | 0.86 (0.84–0.88) | 0.77 (0.74–0.80) | 0.88 (0.86–0.89) | 0.89 (0.88–0.91) | 0.87 (0.86–0.89) |
| 22 | 0.88 (0.86–0.90) | 0.80 (0.77–0.83) | 0.89 (0.87–0.91) | 0.91 (0.89–0.92) | 0.89 (0.87–0.91) |
| 23 | 0.90 (0.87–0.91) | 0.82 (0.79–0.85) | 0.91 (0.89–0.93) | 0.92 (0.90–0.94) | 0.91 (0.88–0.92) |
*All values are statistically significant. PFu, estimated preventable fraction among the unexposed.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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