Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated non-pharmaceutical interventions on other notifiable infectious diseases in Germany: An analysis of national surveillance data during week 1–2016 – week 32–2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) affect healthcare seeking behaviour, access to healthcare, test strategies, disease notification and workload at public health authorities, but may also lead to a true change in transmission dynamics. We aimed to assess the...

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Published in:The Lancet regional health. Europe 2021-07, Vol.6, p.100103-100103, Article 100103
Main Authors: Ullrich, Alexander, Schranz, Madlen, Rexroth, Ute, Hamouda, Osamah, Schaade, Lars, Diercke, Michaela, Boender, T. Sonia
Format: Article
Language:English
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Cohort studies
COVID-19
Disease transmission, infectious
Epidemiology
General Practitioners
Pandemics
Public health surveillance
Research Paper
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic and associated non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) affect healthcare seeking behaviour, access to healthcare, test strategies, disease notification and workload at public health authorities, but may also lead to a true change in transmission dynamics. We aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic and NPIs on other notifiable infectious diseases under surveillance in Germany. We included 32 nationally notifiable disease categories with case numbers >100/year in 2016–2019. We used quasi-Poisson regression analysis on a weekly aggregated time-series incorporating trend and seasonality, to compute the relative change in case numbers during week 2020–10 to 2020–32 (pandemic/NPIs), in comparison to week 2016–01 to 2020–09. During week 2020–10 to 2020–32, 216,825 COVID-19 cases, and 162,942 (-35%) cases of other diseases, were notified. Case numbers decreased across all ages and notification categories (all p
ISSN:2666-7762
2666-7762
DOI:10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100103