Analysis of patients admitted to Teaching Hospital Karapitiya”: This research was conducted with the supplemental funding from the RISE study (K23 grant) and the training grant from the NIH (TW009337). This study was proposed to describe the etiology and severity of respiratory viral infections among children and adults admitted to Teaching Hospital Karapitiya during the 2018 epidemic of respiratory viral infections. Data and Sample collection were completed. Sample testing, data analysis, and publications are still in progress. (PI- Dr.Sky Vanderburg, Champica Bodinayake; Co-Investigators- Dr. Gayani Tillekeratne, Prof. Ajith Nagahawatte, Prof. Christopher Woods, Prof. Vasantha Devasiri, Dr. Gaya Wijayaratne, Dr. Bradly Nicholson, Elizabeth Petzold, Gregory Gray, Dr. Sunethra Gunesena, Dr. Muhunthan Sellathurai, Dr.Bhagya Piyasiri, Dr. Lakmal Fonseka, Ms. Ruvini Kurukulasooriya)