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cord-262286-flc5f9wh	Baral, S. D.	The Relationship between the Global Burden of Influenza from 2017-2019 and COVID-19	2020-06-20		.txt	text/plain	4279	316	55	Methods Weekly surveillance data reported in FluNet from January 2017-December 2019 for influenza and World Health Organization for COVID-19 (to May 31, 2020) across the seven World Bank regions were used to assess the total and annual number of influenza and COVID-19 cases per country, within and across all regions, to generate comparative descending ranks from highest to lowest burden of disease. As of June, 2020, Europe and the Americas regions have registered the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths while South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Pacific have experienced comparatively milder epidemics 1 . Outside of East Asia and the Pacific, regions with lower levels of COVID-19 generally ranked lower in influenza burden using historical data. . seasonal influenza pattern, several sub-Saharan African countries (e.g. Sudan) were not included in the comparison of rankings despite high COVID-19 and influenza burden.	./cache/cord-262286-flc5f9wh.txt	./txt/cord-262286-flc5f9wh.txt