Ripple Effects of COVID-19 on Taiwan’s Infectious Disease Landscape

Review Article

Ripple Effects of COVID-19 on Taiwan’s Infectious Disease Landscape

Michael Ross^1*, Linda Greene², Jason Miller³, Sarah Bennett⁴

¹Department Department of Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
²Center for Viral Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
³Department of Infectious Pathogens, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
⁴Virology and Bioinformatics Unit, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Available online: 04 Dec 2012

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped healthcare priorities and public health infrastructures around the globe. While its direct impacts have been widely studied, emerging evidence highlights its indirect effects on the surveillance and incidence of other infectious diseases. This review explores the findings from a comprehensive observational study conducted in Taiwan, which evaluated how COVID-19 and associated mitigation strategies influenced the reporting and occurrence of notifiable infectious diseases. By critically analyzing the data trends, methodology, and broader implications, this article provides an in-depth synthesis of the pandemic’s ripple effects across Taiwan’s public health system.

Keywords

Zoonotic Viruses, Vector-Borne Viruses, Mathematical Modeling, Epidemiological Models