The effect of seasonal respiratory virus transmission on syndromic surveillance for COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada

Affiliations

• ¹ Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada. Electronic address: a.maharaj@mail.utoronto.ca.
• ² Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
• ³ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
• ⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada; Toronto Public Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada; Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Epidemiology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Computational Epidemiology Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷ Computational Epidemiology Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada; Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁹ Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Computational Epidemiology Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁰ Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health, Kingston, ON, Canada.
• ¹¹ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
• ¹² Computational Epidemiology Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.