The weekly P25 of the age of the influenza-like illness shows a higher correlation with COVID-19 mortality than rapid tests and could predict the evolution of COVID-19 pandemics in sentinel surveillance, Piura, Perú, 2021

• Víctor Raúl Ocaña Gutiérrez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Raúl Ocaña Gutiérrez, Rodolfo Arturo González Ramírez, Víctor Alexander Ocaña Aguilar, Nadia Gabriela Ocaña Aguilar, Carlos Enrique Holguín Mauricci

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vocanag01@gmail.com, vocanag@unp.edu.pe

  Current address: Infectious Diseases Area, Health Center I, Piura, Perú

  ¶‡ VROG and RAGR are Joint Senior Authors

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Cesar Vallejo University, Piura, Perú

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6518-4926

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• Rodolfo Arturo González Ramírez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Raúl Ocaña Gutiérrez, Rodolfo Arturo González Ramírez, Víctor Alexander Ocaña Aguilar, Nadia Gabriela Ocaña Aguilar, Carlos Enrique Holguín Mauricci

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ VROG and RAGR are Joint Senior Authors

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Cesar Vallejo University, Piura, Perú, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, National University of Cajamarca, Cajamarca, Perú

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• Víctor Alexander Ocaña Aguilar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Raúl Ocaña Gutiérrez, Rodolfo Arturo González Ramírez, Víctor Alexander Ocaña Aguilar, Nadia Gabriela Ocaña Aguilar, Carlos Enrique Holguín Mauricci

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Cesar Vallejo University, Piura, Perú, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, National University of Cajamarca, Cajamarca, Perú

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• Nadia Gabriela Ocaña Aguilar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Raúl Ocaña Gutiérrez, Rodolfo Arturo González Ramírez, Víctor Alexander Ocaña Aguilar, Nadia Gabriela Ocaña Aguilar, Carlos Enrique Holguín Mauricci

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, National University of Cajamarca, Cajamarca, Perú

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• Carlos Enrique Holguín Mauricci

  Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Raúl Ocaña Gutiérrez, Rodolfo Arturo González Ramírez, Víctor Alexander Ocaña Aguilar, Nadia Gabriela Ocaña Aguilar, Carlos Enrique Holguín Mauricci

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, National University of Piura, Piura, Perú

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