Seasonal Patterns of Hospitalizations for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Diseases by Age Group and Sex in Alberta, Canada: A Population-Level Retrospective Cohort Study From 2010 to 2025.

Christine D Lukac, Brett Simms, David W Johnson, Manish Sadarangani, Jessalyn K Holodinsky, James D Kellner

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Christine D LukacDepartment of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Brett SimmsHealth Shared Services, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada.

David W JohnsonDepartment of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Manish SadaranganiVaccine Evaluation Center, British Columbia Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9985-6452

Jessalyn K HolodinskyDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-5211

James D KellnerDepartment of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9083-2980

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Abstract

After the near disappearance of pediatric acute respiratory disease (ARD) hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021), during the late-pandemic (2022-2023), only the resurgence in bronchiolitis, including both age groups and sexes, exceeded seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average model reference ranges. Two full seasons post-pandemic (2023-2024, 2024-2025), pediatric ARD hospitalizations remained within SARIMA model reference ranges developed on pre-pandemic patterns.

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asthma exacerbationbronchiolitiscroupinfluenza-like illnesspneumonia

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PMID42751056

DOI10.1093/ofid/ofag535

PMCPMC13579473

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