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ArticleCanada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2023

National Influenza Annual Report, Canada, 2022-2023: Canada's first fall epidemic since the 2019-2020 season.

Kara Schmidt, Myriam Ben Moussa, Steven Buckrell, Abbas Rahal, Taeyo Chestley, Nathalie Bastien, Liza Lee

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Article in Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Trends in Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Among Healthcare Workers in a Canadian Cohort Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic, June 2020 to November 2023.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025
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  8. National Influenza Annual Report 2023-2024: A focus on influenza B and public health implications.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2024
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  9. Genomic evolution of influenza during the 2023-2024 season, the johns hopkins health system.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2024
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  10. 2023/24 mid-season influenza and Omicron XBB.1.5 vaccine effectiveness estimates from the Canadian Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance Network (SPSN).Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kara SchmidtCentre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Myriam Ben MoussaCentre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Steven BuckrellCentre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Abbas RahalCentre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Taeyo ChestleyNational Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB.
Nathalie BastienNational Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB.
Liza LeeCentre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Public Health Agency of Canada · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coinciding with the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in March 2020, Canadian seasonal influenza circulation was suppressed, which was a trend reported globally. Canada saw a brief and delayed return of community influenza circulation during the spring of the 2021-2022 influenza season. Surveillance for Canada's 2022-2023 seasonal influenza epidemic began in epidemiological week 35 (week starting August 28, 2022) and ended in epidemiological week 34 (week ending August 26, 2023). The 2022-2023 season marked the return to pre-pandemic-like influenza circulation. The epidemic began in epidemiological week 43 (week ending October 29, 2022) and lasted 10 weeks. Driven by influenza A(H3N2), the epidemic was relatively early, extraordinary in intensity, and short in length. This season, a total of 74,344 laboratory-confirmed influenza detections were reported out of 1,188,962 total laboratory tests. A total of 93% of detections were influenza A (n=68,923). Influenza A(H3N2) accounted for 89% of the subtyped specimens (n=17,638/19,876). Late-season, Canada saw community circulation of influenza B for the first time since the 2019-2020 season. The 2022-2023 influenza season in Canada had an extraordinary impact on children and youth; nearly half (n=6,194/13,729, 45%) of reported influenza A(H3N2) detections were in the paediatric (younger than 19 years) population. Weekly paediatric influenza-associated hospital admissions were persistently above historical peak levels for several weeks. The total number of influenza-associated paediatric hospitalizations (n=1,792) far exceeded historical averages (n=1,091). With the return of seasonal influenza circulation and endemic co-circulation of multiple high burden respiratory viruses, sustained vigilance is warranted. Annual seasonal influenza vaccination is a key public health intervention available to protect Canadians.

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