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Prevention and flu data linked
DOWNWARD TREND: Researchers said that the number of people who died of the flu or pneumonia last year was significantly lower than in 2019, with masks credited
By Wu Liang-yi and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taiwan’s pandemic prevention efforts have not only kept COVID-19 at bay, but are also likely the reason for a 10-year low in pneumonia and influenza deaths, a letter published on Tuesday in the journal
Annals of Internal Medicine said.
The letter, “Examining population health during the COVID-19 pandemic: All-cause, pneumonia and influenza, and road traffic deaths in Taiwan,” analyzed government data from 2008 to last year to “assess the possibility of undocumented COVID-19 deaths and whether nonpharmaceutical interventions and behavior changes” had an effect on the number of deaths last year.
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A visitor to the Taipei Game Show in late January uses a hand washing facility set up by the organizer. CNA file photo
Taipei, Feb. 3 (CNA) Behavioral changes in Taiwan aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19 have likely had a positive spillover effect, driving deaths from pneumonia and influenza to their lowest levels in 10 years, according to the results of a recent study.
The study, authored by Wayne Gao (高志文) and Mattia Sanna of Taipei Medical University s College of Public Health, set out to examine the possibility that undocumented COVID-19 deaths have occurred in Taiwan, and to assess whether behavioral changes made in response to the pandemic have affected the number of deaths from various causes.