Changes in notifiable infectious disease incidence in China during the COVID-19 pandemic

Meng-Jie Geng1, Hai-Yang Zhang2,3, Lin-Jie Yu2

  • 1Division of Infectious Disease, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.

Nature Communications
|November 27, 2021
PubMed

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