Decreased incidence followed by comeback of pediatric infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan. cghaznavi@keio.jp.
• ² Medical Education Program, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Saint Louis, USA. cghaznavi@keio.jp.
• ³ Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁸ Center for Birth Cohort Studies, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.
• ⁹ Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Division of Prevention, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹¹ Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹² Department of Sustainable Health Science, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
• ¹³ Institute for Business and Finance, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.