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cord-318856-f0m3wuyj	Hoogeveen, Martijn J.	Can pollen explain the seasonality of flu-like illnesses in the Netherlands?	2020-10-22		.txt	text/plain	4702	233	48	To further understand the impact of pollen as an environmental factor influencing the life cycle of flulike epidemics, the objective of this study is to determine the correlations of pollen and meteorological variables with (changes in) flu-like incidence and develop and test a discrete predictive model that combines pollen and meteorological co-inhibitors. To study the relationship between pollen and flu-like incidence in the Netherlands, we used the public datasets of Elkerliek Hospital (Elkerliek.nl) about the weekly allergenic, low-level allergenic and total pollen concentrations in the Netherlands in grains/m 3 , whereby for 42 types of pollen particles the J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Journal Pre-proof numbers are counted and averaged per day per 1m 3 of air. When testing the impact on ΔILI, the weekly changes in medical flu-like incidence, the extended dataset till 2020, including COVID-19, shows a strong and highly significant inverse correlation with total pollen (r(226) = -0.26, p = 0.000063).	./cache/cord-318856-f0m3wuyj.txt	./txt/cord-318856-f0m3wuyj.txt