TY - JOUR AU - Franco, Danilo AU - Gonzalez, Claudia AU - Abrego, Leyda AU - Carrera, Jean-Paul AU - Diaz, Yamilka AU - Caicedo, Yaset AU - Moreno, Ambar AU - Chavarria, Oris AU - Gondola, Jessica AU - Castillo, Marlene AU - Valdespino, Elimelec AU - Gaitán, Melissa AU - Martínez-Mandiche, Jose AU - Hayer, Lizbeth AU - Gonzalez, Pablo AU - Lange, Carmen AU - Molto, Yadira AU - Mojica, Dalis AU - Ramos, Ruben AU - Mastelari, Maria AU - Cerezo, Lizbeth AU - Moreno, Lourdes AU - Donnelly, Christl AU - Pascale, Juan Miguel AU - Faria, Nuno Rodrigues AU - Lopez-Verges, Sandra AU - Martinez, Alexander T1 - Early Transmission Dynamics, Spread, and Genomic Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 in Panama T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 2 SP - 612 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report an epidemiologic analysis of 4,210 cases of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and genetic analysis of 313 new near-complete virus genomes in Panama during March 9–April 16, 2020. Although containment measures reduced R0 and Rt, they did not interrupt virus spread in the country. KW - Bayesian analysis KW - coronavirus disease KW - COVID-19 transmission KW - early cryptic transmission KW - epidemic dynamics KW - genomic diversity KW - outbreaks KW - Panama KW - respiratory infections KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - viruses DO - 10.3201/eid2702.203767 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-3767_article ER - End of Reference