Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on GI infection surveillance trends in England, January 2020-April 2022.

ABSTRACT: Stepwise non-pharmaceutical interventions and health system changes implemented as part of the COVID-19 response have had implications on the incidence, diagnosis, and reporting of other communicable diseases. Here, we established the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak response on gastrointestinal (GI) infection trends using routinely collected surveillance data from six national English laboratory, outbreak, and syndromic surveillance systems using key dates of governmental policy to assign phases for comparison between pandemic and historic data. Following decreases across all indicators during the first lockdown (March-May 2020), bacterial and parasitic pathogens associated with foodborne or environmental transmission routes recovered rapidly between June and September 2020, while those as

SUBMITTER: Love NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10540168 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature