Ahn Jong Gyun
Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Institute for Immunology and Immunological Diseases, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2022 Apr;65(4):167-171. doi: 10.3345/cep.2021.01515. Epub 2021 Nov 30.
In the era of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, countries worldwide have implemented several nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to contain its spread before vaccines and treatments were developed. NPIs included social distancing, mask wearing, intensive contact tracing and isolation, and sanitization. In addition to their effectiveness at preventing the rapid spread of COVID-19, NPIs have caused secondary changes in the epidemiology of other infectious diseases. In Korea, various NPI stages have been implemented since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 on January 20, 2020. This review, based on a PubMed database search, shows the impact of NPIs on several infectious diseases other than severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in the COVID-19 pandemic era in Korea.
在2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行时代，在疫苗和治疗方法研发出来之前，世界各国已实施了多项非药物干预措施（NPIs）以遏制其传播。非药物干预措施包括社交距离、佩戴口罩、强化接触者追踪与隔离以及消毒。除了在预防COVID-19快速传播方面的有效性外，非药物干预措施还导致了其他传染病流行病学的继发性变化。在韩国，自2020年1月20日首例COVID-19确诊病例以来，已实施了不同阶段的非药物干预措施。本综述基于PubMed数据库检索，展示了在韩国COVID-19大流行时代，非药物干预措施对除严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2之外的几种传染病的影响。
