Posted January 18, 2021
Weekly Influenza Reports
Public Health Ontario
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu-influenza/influenza-surveillance/weekly-influenza-reports.html
COVID-19 measures also suppress flu—for now
Kelly Servick
Science, Jan. 15 2021, Vol. 371, Issue 6526, pp. 224
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/224
How COVID-19 is changing the cold and flu season
Nicola Jones N. (2020). Nature, 588(7838), 388–390. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03519-3
Posted October 9, 2020
Key features of influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and Other Common Respiratory Viruses
Public Health Ontario, Sept. 2020
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/ipac/2020/09/key-features-influenza-covid-19-respiratory-viruses.pdf?la=en
*see page 4 for basic reproductive numbers and case fatality percentages
FluWatch annual report: 2018-19 influenza season
Public Health Agency of Canada, 2019
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/fluwatch/2018-2019/annual-report.html
Ontario Respiratory Pathogen Bulletin 2018-19: Surveillance Season (September 1, 2018 – August 31,2019)
Public Health Ontario, 2019
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/surveillance-reports/orpb/orpb-weeks-summary-2018-19.pdf?la=en
Posted September 18, 2020
Influenza vaccine does not increase the risk of coronavirus or other non-influenza respiratory viruses: retrospective analysis from Canada, 2010-11 to 2016-17.
Skowronski, D. M., Zou, M., Clarke, Q., et al. (2020). Clinical Infectious Diseases. Published online May 22 2020.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa626/5842161
Why doctors think you should get the flu shot this year — and soon
Emily Chung, Marcy Cuttler, Christine Birak, CBC News, Sept. 18 2020
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-shot-doctors-covid-19-1.5728672
Coronavirus and the Flu: A Looming Double Threat
Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, Sept. 6 2020
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coronavirus-and-the-flu-a-looming-double-threat/
Addressing Influenza Vaccination Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Grohskopf, L. A., Liburd, L. C., & Redfield, R. R. JAMA. 2020;324(11):1029-1030.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769837
Getting a flu shot during the COVID-19 era: Here’s what you need to know
Nicole Ireland, CBC News, Sept. 3 2020
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-vaccine-covid-19-twindemic-what-you-need-to-know-1.5709559
What Happens When COVID-19 Collides With Flu Season?
Rubin, R. JAMA. 2020;324(10):923-925. Aug. 20 2020
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769835
COVID-19 and the next influenza season
Benjamin D. Singer, Science Advances, Vol. 6, no. 31, July 29 2020
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/31/eabd0086
