Comparison of Common Respiratory Virus Peak Incidence Among Varying Age Groups in Rhode Island, 2012-2016

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 May 1;3(5):e207041. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.7041.

Young June Choe^{1

2}, Michael A Smit^{1

3

4}, Leonard A Mermel^{5

6}

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
² Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
⁴ Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Abstract

This case series study assesses the seasonality of respiratory viral infections among different age groups in Rhode Island from 2012 to 2016.