Elisabeth Dietz, Emma Pritchard, Koen Pouwels, Muhammad Ehsaan, Joshua Blake, Charlotte Gaughan, Eric Haduli, Hugh Boothe, Karina-Doris Vihta, Tim Peto, Nicole Stoesser, Philippa Matthews, Nick Taylor, Ian Diamond, Ruth Studley, Emma Rourke, Paul Birrell, Daniela De Angelis, Tom Fowler, Conall Watson, David Eyre, Thomas House, Ann Sarah Walker
BACKGROUND: Syndromic surveillance often relies on patients presenting to healthcare. Community cohorts, although more challenging to recruit, could provide additional population-wide insights, particularly with SARS-CoV-2 co-circulating with other respiratory viruses. METHODS: We estimated the positivity and incidence of SARS-CoV-2, influenza A/B, and RSV, and trends in self-reported symptoms including influenza-like illness (ILI), over the 2022/23 winter season in a broadly representative UK community cohort (COVID-19 Infection Survey), using negative-binomial generalised additive models...
March 26, 2024: BMC Medicine