@文章{信息:doi/10.2196/25728，作者=“Post, Lori和Ohiomoba, Ramael O和Maras, Ashley和Watts, Sean J和Moss, Charles B和Murphy, Robert Leo和Ison, Michael G和Achenbach, Chad J和Resnick, Danielle和Singh, Lauren Nadya和White, Janine和Chaudhury, Azraa S和Boctor, Michael J和Welch, Sarah B和Oehmke, James Francis”，标题=“拉丁美洲和加勒比SARS-CoV-2监测:纵向趋势分析"，期刊="JMIR公共卫生监测"，年="2021"，月="4月"，日="27"，量="7"，数="4"，页数="e25728"，关键词="7天持续性";加速度;Arellano——债券估计量;COVID-19监测系统;COVID-19;动态面板数据;计量经济学;经济;广义矩量法; global COVID-19 surveillance; Latin America and the Caribbean; longitudinal; metric; persistence; policy; public health surveillance; SARS-CoV-2; second wave; surveillance metrics; transmission deceleration; transmission jerk; transmission speed; trend analysis", abstract="Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented stress on economies, food systems, and health care resources in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Existing surveillance provides a proxy of the COVID-19 caseload and mortalities; however, these measures make it difficult to identify the dynamics of the pandemic and places where outbreaks are likely to occur. Moreover, existing surveillance techniques have failed to measure the dynamics of the pandemic. Objective: This study aimed to provide additional surveillance metrics for COVID-19 transmission to track changes in the speed, acceleration, jerk, and persistence in the transmission of the pandemic more accurately than existing metrics. Methods: Through a longitudinal trend analysis, we extracted COVID-19 data over 45 days from public health registries. We used an empirical difference equation to monitor the daily number of cases in the LAC as a function of the prior number of cases, the level of testing, and weekly shift variables based on a dynamic panel model that was estimated using the generalized method of moments approach by implementing the Arellano--Bond estimator in R. COVID-19 transmission rates were tracked for the LAC between September 30 and October 6, 2020, and between October 7 and 13, 2020. Results: The LAC saw a reduction in the speed, acceleration, and jerk for the week of October 13, 2020, compared to the week of October 6, 2020, accompanied by reductions in new cases and the 7-day moving average. For the week of October 6, 2020, Belize reported the highest acceleration and jerk, at 1.7 and 1.8, respectively, which is particularly concerning, given its high mortality rate. The Bahamas also had a high acceleration at 1.5. In total, 11 countries had a positive acceleration during the week of October 6, 2020, whereas only 6 countries had a positive acceleration for the week of October 13, 2020. The TAC displayed an overall positive trend, with a speed of 10.40, acceleration of 0.27, and jerk of --0.31, all of which decreased in the subsequent week to 9.04, --0.81, and --0.03, respectively. Conclusions: Metrics such as new cases, cumulative cases, deaths, and 7-day moving averages provide a static view of the pandemic but fail to identify where and the speed at which SARS-CoV-2 infects new individuals, the rate of acceleration or deceleration of the pandemic, and weekly comparison of the rate of acceleration of the pandemic indicate impending explosive growth or control of the pandemic. Enhanced surveillance will inform policymakers and leaders in the LAC about COVID-19 outbreaks. ", issn="2369-2960", doi="10.2196/25728", url="https://publichealth.www.mybigtv.com/2021/4/e25728", url="https://doi.org/10.2196/25728", url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33852413" }