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The ongoing corona pandemic shows us every day how important up-to-date and valid information is for restoring, maintaining and promoting health. How easy or difficult it is to access health-related information and materials is largely determined by the environments in which we live and work - and thus the so-called organizational health competence (Ernstmann et al. 2020; Schaeffer et al. 2018). In addition to the individual ability to deal with health-related information, organizations and institutions in particular are responsible for supporting the procurement and handling of health information for users (i.e. patients, residents, clients and relatives) (Ernstmann et al . 2020; Schaeffer et al. 2018). For example, the use of foreign words in health-related information makes comprehension more difficult, while texts in simple language are also easier to understand for people with a low educational background or cognitive impairments (Pelikan/Dietscher 2015). Management and specialist staff in particular play an important role in the provision and handling of health-related information for users and their health literacy (DeGani et al. 2020). Acute diseases such as stroke and myocardial infarction are documented less frequently. The change in behavior resulting from the implementation of strict hygiene rules may also have led to a “real” decrease in rates of non-Covid-19 infectious diseases (5,6). In other words, the measures taken to combat the Covid-19 pandemic may also have affected the spread of other germs that cause respiratory (AI) and gastrointestinal (GI) infections. For this reason, in the present study, the authors wanted to examine the frequency of these AIs and GIs during the Covid-19 pandemic using data from a large database that includes anonymized treatment information from general practitioners and paediatricians in Germany.