Volume 28, Number 1—January 2022
Dispatch
Use of Private Sector Workforce Respiratory Disease Short-Term Disability Claims to Assess SARS-CoV-2, Mexico, 2020
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Figure 1. Annual incidence rates of work absenteeism related to respiratory diseases short-term disability claims per 10,000 workers for workers insured by the Mexican Social Security Institute, by epidemiologic week, Mexico, 2015–2020. Smoothed series was determined by using locally weighted scatterplot smoothing. Epidemic threshold was estimated by using the moving epidemic method and observed values for 2015‒2019. Dashed lines indicate epidemic thresholds and epidemic intensities (i.e., low, medium, high, and very high) for the 2015–2019 winter seasons.