RIVM has developed an interactive user-friendly computational tool, AirCoV2, to analyse and conduct Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) for aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in indoor spaces. AirCoV2 allows the user to evaluate infection risk scenarios for different room sizes, occupancy rate, ventilation rate, and viral load of the infected person. 

This page describes the surveillance of other respiratory infections reported in the weekly virological laboratory surveillance, winter 2023/2024. Approximately 19 laboratories report weekly the number of diagnoses of several viral pathogens and certain obligatory intracellular (i.e. only growing within a cell) bacteria to the RIVM. All these laboratories are members of the Working Group on Clinical Virology (NWKV) of the Dutch Society for Medical Microbiology (NVMM). More background information on the virological laboratory surveillance can be found in the document 'Background and Methods of Respiratory Surveillance 2023/2024'. Since 2022/2023, several laboratories that only reported SARS-CoV-2 during the pandemic have also started reporting other viruses. This review on 2023/2024 is limited to the original laboratories to allow comparison with past seasons. As respiratory infections mainly occur in winter, the data are presented for a respiratory season or a respiratory year. A respiratory season runs from week 40 of one year to week 20 of the following year. A respiratory year runs from week 40 of one year to week 39 of the following year. In this retrospect, the data for the respiratory year 2023/2024 is limited to the respiratory season. For an overview of the dynamics of the different pathogens, see the figures below. In all figures, the black line shows the average number of detections per week for the respiratory years 2014/2015 – 2018/2019. The data of these individual respiratory years can be found in the annual report Surveillance of acute respiratory infections in the Netherlands: winter 2018/2019. The figures for influenza virus and RSV are shown in the retrospects of these viruses.

This page describes the surveillance of RS-virus (RSV) in the Netherlands during the respiratory season 2023/2024. Since most respiratory infections occur mainly in winter, the data are presented for a respiratory season or a respiratory year. A respiratory season runs from week 40 of one year to week 20 of the following year. A respiratory year runs from week 40 of one year to week 39 of the following year. In this retrospect, the data from the respiratory year 2023/2024 is limited to the respiratory season. For more details on the various surveillance sources, see the background and method document on respiratory surveillance for 2023/2024.

This page describes the surveillance of influenza in the Netherlands during the respiratory season 2023/2024. Since most respiratory infections occur mainly in winter, the data are presented for a respiratory season or a respiratory year. A respiratory season runs from week 40 of one year to week 20 of the following year. A respiratory year runs from week 40 of one year to week 39 of the following year. In this retrospect, the data from the respiratory year 2023/2024 is limited to the respiratory season. For more details on the various surveillance sources, see the background and method document on respiratory surveillance for 2023/2024. 

This page describes the surveillance of COVID-19 in the Netherlands during the respiratory season 2023/2024. This page describes the surveillance of COVID-19 in the Netherlands during the respiratory season 2023/2024. Since most respiratory infections occur mainly in winter, the data are presented for a respiratory season or a respiratory year. A respiratory season runs from week 40 of one year to week 20 of the following year. A respiratory year runs from week 40 of one year to week 39 of the following year. In this retrospect, the data from the respiratory year 2023/2024 is limited to the respiratory season. For more details on the various surveillance sources, see the background and method document on respiratory surveillance for 2023/2024.

This page describes the surveillance of respiratory infections and their causes in the Netherlands during the respiratory season 2023/2024. On this page, you can find information about the surveillance of:  acute respiratory infections (ARI), including influenza-like illness (ILI);  bronchiolitis in children;  pneumonia (limited to community-acquired pneumonia). Since  respiratory infections occur mainly in winter, the data are presented for a respiratory season or a respiratory year. A respiratory season runs from week 40 of one year to week 20 of the following year. A respiratory year runs from week 40 of one year to week 39 of the following year. In this retrospect the data from the respiratory year 2023/2024 is limited to the respiratory season.

Department Public Health Foresight  Around 20 people from different disciplines are working in this department. The department is headed by Dr. Birgitte Blatter.  Top expert  Making public health foresight studies is one of the RIVM’s fields of expertise. For several of these, RIVM has appointed a Top Expert. These senior experts stimulate the scientific and strategic development of their field of expertise. RIVM’s Top Expert in public health foresight is Dr Henk Hilderink.