TY - JOUR
T1 - Echoes of the pandemic
T2 - Contrasting COVID-19 outbreaks in northern Peru
AU - Pereira-Victorio, César Johan
AU - Failoc-Rojas, Virgilio E.
AU - Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
AU - Morocho-Alburqueque, Noelia
AU - Plasencia-Dueñas, Rubi
AU - Torres-Mera, Alicia
AU - Vera-Ponce, Víctor J.
AU - Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla
AU - Yáñez, Jaime A.
AU - Valladares-Garrido, Mario J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Failoc-Rojas VE et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Peru reported the second-highest COVID-19 cases in Latin America, after Brazil. The first COVID-19 wave occurred between March– December 2020, and the second occurred between January–September 2021. The differences between these waves remain largely unknown, and there is no comparison between them in Peru. We evaluated the variation in the clinical and epidemiological components of COVID-19-affected patients in both waves in northern Peru by a retrospective study using the clinical follow-up database of Lambayeque and the epidemiological notification form database of NotiWeb. The COVID-19-associated factors during the two waves were determined using simple and multiple regression analysis, and the prevalence ratio (PR) was estimated. During the second wave of COVID-19, there was an increase in cough symptoms in 12.1%, odynophagia in 5.0%, and chills in 16.0% compared with the first wave. The second wave was marked by a higher proportion of affected adolescents and children and a greater percentage of respiratory symptoms than the first wave.
AB - Peru reported the second-highest COVID-19 cases in Latin America, after Brazil. The first COVID-19 wave occurred between March– December 2020, and the second occurred between January–September 2021. The differences between these waves remain largely unknown, and there is no comparison between them in Peru. We evaluated the variation in the clinical and epidemiological components of COVID-19-affected patients in both waves in northern Peru by a retrospective study using the clinical follow-up database of Lambayeque and the epidemiological notification form database of NotiWeb. The COVID-19-associated factors during the two waves were determined using simple and multiple regression analysis, and the prevalence ratio (PR) was estimated. During the second wave of COVID-19, there was an increase in cough symptoms in 12.1%, odynophagia in 5.0%, and chills in 16.0% compared with the first wave. The second wave was marked by a higher proportion of affected adolescents and children and a greater percentage of respiratory symptoms than the first wave.
KW - COVID-19
KW - epidemiology
KW - infection
KW - pandemic waves
KW - Peru
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85202487693&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3897/pharmacia.71.e122087
DO - 10.3897/pharmacia.71.e122087
M3 - Original Article
AN - SCOPUS:85202487693
SN - 0428-0296
VL - 71
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Pharmacia
JF - Pharmacia
ER -