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my article on childhood viral respiratory diseases is now out @RoyalSocBio rsb.org.uk/biologist-feat… (delighted to be sandwiched in between a piece on oxylipins and another on latent lepidopterans)🧵 Image
I highlight the increasing burden of childhood viral respiratory disease on hospital services edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh…
how this demand evaporated during the first lockdown, and what this has taught us about how these viruses spread adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/… Image
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Time for a Bronchiolitis round up courtesy of @UKHSA

[Bronchiolitis is caused by a virus called RSV]

The international data has very interesting implications for us!

Remember you can follow #Bronchstart study data here: beta.microreact.org/project/cTkH24…

@PERUKItweep @MyMicroreact
So USA saw a sharp increase for 3-4 weeks followed by a subsequent decrease in detections.
Peak was similar to 2019 season however began in May (c.f. normal September-October).
Increase sustained until early September 2021, a longer peak than the previous year. Image
Canada has had an increase in number of RSV positive tests than usual for the same time period (grey dash is 6 year average)

This is in keeping with decreased immunity (children not exposed in 2020) along with the current increase in social mixing. ImageImage
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the #BronchSTART study dashboard beta.microreact.org/project/cTkH24… already contains a huge amount of data
and you can see that there have been unusual regional variations in the RSV season this year 🧵 1/n
normally the RSV season starts in the urban centres of the NW of England and London at around the same time thorax.bmj.com/content/75/3/2… and spreads to the rest of the country in the following 3 weeks 2/n
this year, like in previous ones, RSV did start (early? late?) in the urban centres of the NW of England and peaked at epidemiological week 30 3/n
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