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cord-315723-unhg20e9	Juan, Hui-Chun	Decline in invasive pneumococcal disease during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan	2020-09-19		.txt	text/plain	530	37	62	Dear Editor , We read with great interest Lim et al's report, 1 which showed a decreased incidence of pneumococcal disease in Singapore during the first 27 weeks in 2020 in the time of COVID-19. Although the collateral benefit of controlling COVID-19 for other common respiratory infectious diseases, such as influenza and tuberculosis in Taiwan have been demonstrated, 2 , 3 the impact of the infection control and policy to prevent COVID-19 outbreak on pneumococcal disease remained unclear. Although many confounding factors, such as vaccine strategy or under-report of IPD during COVID-19 pandemic were not evaluated in this study, our findings was consistent with Singapore's study 1 suggest that strictly performance of infection control and policy not only mitigate the threaten of COVID-19 but also reduce the burden of other respiratory infections disease -invasive pneumococcal diseases. Decline in pneumococcal disease incidence in the time of COVID-19 in Singapore	./cache/cord-315723-unhg20e9.txt	./txt/cord-315723-unhg20e9.txt