The effect of early-stage public health policies in the transmission of COVID-19 for South American countries

• Main Authors: Bryan Valcarcel (Author), Jose L. Avilez (Author), J. Smith Torres-Roman (Author), Julio A. Poterico (Author), Janina Bazalar-Palacios (Author), Carlo La Vecchia (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Pan American Health Organization, 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives. The analysis of transmission dynamics is crucial to determine whether mitigation or suppression measures reduce the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study sought to estimate the basic (R0) and time-varying (Rt) reproduction number of COVID-19 and contrast the public he...