Predicting virologically-confirmed influenza using school
absences in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA during the 2007-2015
influenza seasons
Running Title: School absences predicting county influenza
Talia M. Quandelacy1,2, Shanta
Zimmer3,4, Justin Lessler1, Charles
Vukotich3, Rachel Bieltz3, Kyra H.
Grantz5, David Galloway3, Jonathan
M. Read6, Yenlik Zheteyeva7,
Hongjiang Gao7, Amra Uzicanin7,
Derek A.T. Cummings1,5