Monitoring Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Through Trends in Influenza-like Illness, Laboratory-confirmed Influenza, and COVID-19-New York State, Excluding New York City, 1 January 2020-12 April 2020

Eli S Rosenberg; Eric W Hall; Elizabeth M Rosenthal; Angela M Maxted; Donna L Gowie; Elizabeth M Dufort; Debra S Blog; Dina Hoefer; Kirsten St George; Brad J Hutton; Howard A Zucker; New York State Coronavirus 2019 Response Team

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa684

Monitoring Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Through Trends in Influenza-like Illness, Laboratory-confirmed Influenza, and COVID-19-New York State, Excluding New York City, 1 January 2020-12 April 2020

Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jan 23;72(1):144-147. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa684.

Collaborators

New York State Coronavirus 2019 Response Team:
Madhu Anand, Bryon Backenson, Alison Kaufman, Daniel Kuhles, Alison Muse, Alexandra Newman, Wendy Pulver, Lou Smith, Jamie Sommer, Jennifer White, Amy Dean, Victoria Derbyshire, Christina Egan, Meghan Fuschino, Sara Griesemer, Rene Hull, Daryl Lamson, Jennifer Laplante, Kathleen McDonough, Kara Mitchell, Elizabeth Nazarian, Michael Popowich, Jill Taylor, Anne Walsh, Sherlita Amler, Ada Huang, Renee Recchia, Elizabeth Whalen, Elizabeth Lewis, Cynthia Friedman, Sandra Carrera, Lawrence Eisenstein, Ann DeSimone, Johanne Morne, Megan Johnson, Kristen Navarette, Jessica Kumar, Stephanie Ostrowski, Andrienne Mazeau, Sally Dreslin, Nora Yates, Danielle Greene, Eugene Heslin, Emily Lutterloh, David Holtgrave, Meredith Barranco

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University at Albany School of Public Health, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.

Abstract

Innovative monitoring approaches are needed to track the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic and potentially assess the impact of community mitigation interventions. We present temporal data on influenza-like illness, influenza diagnosis, and COVID-19 cases for all 4 regions of New York State through the first 6 weeks of the outbreak.

Keywords: COVID-19; New York; epidemiological monitoring; influenza.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Influenza, Human*
Laboratories
New York City
SARS-CoV-2