Changes in hospitalizations for respiratory diseases following the COVID-19 epidemic

Epidemiological and demographic data, the discharge diagnosis as recorded by the 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases, and the respiratory tract microbiological examination results were obtained from the electronic medical records of West China Hospital. [2] A multicenter randomized clinical study of outpatient health care personnel wearing either N95 respirators or medical masks found no significant difference in the incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza. [4] Wu et al[5] reported a significant decline in TB detection during the COVID-19 pandemic (from March 27 to May 28, 2020), but they indicated that this may have been due to a reduction in people seeking health care because of the insufficient and delayed provision of TB services. COVID-19 protective measures alone, such as wearing face masks and maintaining hand hygiene, cannot effectively reduce TB morbidity. [...]the current study found no change in the proportion of TB in hospitalized patients.