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ArticleThe Lancet. Child & adolescent health2020

COVID-19 public health measures and respiratory syncytial virus.

Philip N Britton, Nan Hu, Gemma Saravanos, Jane Shrapnel, Jake Davis, Tom Snelling, Jacqui Dalby-Payne, Alison M Kesson, Nicholas Wood, Kristine Macartney and 2 more

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Article in The Lancet. Child & adolescent health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

123 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the etiological spectrum of respiratory infections in children.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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  7. Respiratory virus circulation during pandemic: Why were some viruses still circulating?Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025
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  9. Hospitalisation trends of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in adults, six European countries, before and during COVID-19, 2016 to 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025
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63 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Philip N BrittonDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: philip.britton@health.nsw.gov.au.
Nan HuPopulation Child Health Research Group, School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Gemma SaravanosNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Jane ShrapnelDiscipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Management Support and Analysis Unit, Directorate of Clinical Integration, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Jake DavisManagement Support and Analysis Unit, Directorate of Clinical Integration, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Tom SnellingDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Jacqui Dalby-PayneDepartment of General Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia.
Alison M KessonDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Nicholas WoodNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; Department of General Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Kristine MacartneyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Cheryl McCullaghDiscipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Management Support and Analysis Unit, Directorate of Clinical Integration, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Raghu LingamPopulation Child Health Research Group, School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Community Paediatrics, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Communicable Disease ControlCoronavirus InfectionsHospitalizationPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRespiratory Tract InfectionsAustraliaBetacoronavirusChildChild HealthCOVID-19Disease Transmission, InfectiousElectronic Health RecordsHumansPublic HealthRespiratory Syncytial Virus, Human

Identifiers

PMID32956616
PMCPMC7500894

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