Respiratory Viral Testing Rate Patterns in Young Children Attending Tertiary Care Across Western Australia: A Population-Based Birth Cohort Study.

An increase in viral testing rate in the metropolitan areas of WA starting from 2019 following a decreasing trend is most likely associated with the upsurge in global awareness of and attention to respiratory viruses after the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020, leading to increased testing for all respiratory viruses [ 27 ].

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Conversely, in the WA regional areas, there was an increasing trend in testing rates for respiratory viruses by time across all age groups.

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