Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Disease, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2022 Mar;16(2):190-192. doi: 10.1111/irv.12930. Epub 2021 Nov 7.
Stringent public health measures imposed across Canada to control the COVID-19 pandemic have nearly suppressed most seasonal respiratory viruses, with the notable exception of human rhinovirus/enterovirus (hRV/EV). Thanks to this unexpected persistence, we highlight that hRV/EV could serve as a sentinel for levels of contact rate in populations to inform on the efficiency, or the need of, public health measures to control the subsequent COVID-19 epidemic, but also for future epidemics from other seasonal or emerging respiratory pathogens.
加拿大实施了严格的公共卫生措施来控制 COVID-19 大流行,几乎抑制了大多数季节性呼吸道病毒,但人类鼻病毒/肠道病毒 (hRV/EV) 是一个显著的例外。由于这种出人意料的持续存在,我们强调 hRV/EV 可以作为人群接触率水平的指标,以告知公共卫生措施控制随后的 COVID-19 流行的效率或必要性,以及控制未来其他季节性或新兴呼吸道病原体的流行。