Open AccessPediatric Non-COVID-19 Community-Acquired Pneumonia in COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Chienhsiu Huang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s333751
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , pandemic , incidence (geometry) , community acquired pneumonia , covid-19 , viral pneumonia , pediatrics , outbreak , intensive care medicine , retrospective cohort study , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , disease , physics , optics
The COVID-19 lockdown strategies were associated with a significant decrease in infectious diseases disseminated through airborne or fecal-oral transmissions. Social distancing and other lockdown strategies effectively slowed down the spread of common respiratory viral diseases and decreased the need for hospitalization among children. Thus, a decline in the incidence of respiratory viral diseases had been reported following the COVID-19 outbreak. However, the trend of non-COVID-19 pneumonia in children remains uncertain. This study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of non-COVID-19 community-acquired pneumonia in children.