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SynthesisNature communications2025

Characterising the asynchronous resurgence of common respiratory viruses following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chenkai Zhao, Tiantian Zhang, Ling Guo, Shiqi Sun, Yumeng Miao, Chee Fu Yung, Jane Tomlinson, Kirill Stolyarov, Zakhar Shchomak, Yong Poovorawan and 16 more

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Synthesis in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors.

Chenkai ZhaoDepartment of Epidemiology, National Vaccine Innovation Platform, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0962-2741
Tiantian ZhangDepartment of Epidemiology, National Vaccine Innovation Platform, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Ling GuoDepartment of Epidemiology, National Vaccine Innovation Platform, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Shiqi SunDepartment of Epidemiology, National Vaccine Innovation Platform, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Yumeng MiaoDepartment of Epidemiology, National Vaccine Innovation Platform, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Chee Fu YungInfectious Diseases Service, Department of Paediatrics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Jane TomlinsonInfection Prevention and Control Department, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Kirill StolyarovSmorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, St Petersburg, Russia.
Zakhar ShchomakDepartment of Pediatrics, Hospital Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal.
Yong PoovorawanCenter of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
David James NokesKEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5426-1984
Carmen Muñoz-AlmagroInstitut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu-Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5586-404X
Michal MandelboimCentral Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
James W KeckResearch Services Department, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK, USA.
Joanne Marie LangleyCanadian Center for Vaccinology, IWK Health and Nova Scotia Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3270-7345
Terho HeikkinenDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Jikui DengDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen children's hospital, Shenzhen, China.
Philippe ColsonLaboratory and Infectious Diseases Departments, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6285-0308
Giorgi ChakhunashviliNational Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Mauricio T CaballeroConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Louis BontDepartment of Pediatrics, Wilhemina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3099-4475
Daniel R FeikinDepartment of Immunizations, Vaccines, and Biologicals, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5154-5084
Harish NairDepartment of Epidemiology, National Vaccine Innovation Platform, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9432-9100
Xin Wang *Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Xin.Wang@njmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8762-2421
You Li *Department of Epidemiology, National Vaccine Innovation Platform, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China. You.Li@njmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8506-8439
Respiratory Virus Global Epidemiology Network

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 82404372National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 82473692World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and relevant non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) interrupted the circulation of common respiratory viruses. These viruses demonstrated an unprecedented asynchronous resurgence as NPIs were relaxed. We compiled a global dataset from a systematic review, online surveillance reports and unpublished data from Respiratory Virus Global Epidemiology Network, encompassing 92 sites. We compared the resurgence timings of respiratory viruses within each site and synthesised differences in timings across sites, using a generalised linear mixed-effects model. We revealed a distinct sequential timing in the first post-pandemic resurgence: rhinovirus resurged the earliest, followed by seasonal coronavirus, parainfluenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus, metapneumovirus and influenza A virus, with influenza B virus exhibiting the latest resurgence. Similar sequential timing was observed in the second resurgence except influenza A virus caught up with metapneumovirus. The consistent asynchrony across geographical regions suggests that virus-specific characteristics, rather than location-specific factors, determining the relative timing of resurgence.

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COVID-19Respiratory Tract InfectionsHumansMetapneumovirusPandemicsRhinovirusSARS-CoV-2

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PMID39948338
PMCPMC11825952

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