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by ggm 2257 days ago
Follow up question: are you guys seeing a drop in norovirus, rotovirus and D&V? I would expect social distancing has reduced opportunistic infection rates: no swimming pools, less interactions at large.
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the Swedish state epidemiologist used that measure as a way of measuring the effectiveness of the social distancing and quarantine measures.

apparently, the number of people receiving hospital treatment or dying from yearly virus infections like the flu has dropped significantly.

I have anecdotal evidence from a hospital saying that wards usually reserved for norovirus and C. difficile at this time of year have not been required this year due to the lack of those infections.