Updated Surveillance Metrics and History of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-2023) in Latin America and the Caribbean: Longitudinal Trend Analysis

Lori Ann Post   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Scott A Wu   ³ , BA ;   Alan G Soetikno   ³ , BS ;   Egon A Ozer   ^{4, 5} , MD, PhD ;   Yingxuan Liu   ^{1, 2} , MA ;   Sarah B Welch   ^{1, 2} , MPH ;   Claudia Hawkins   ^{4, 6} , MD, MPH ;   Charles B Moss   ⁷ , PhD ;   Robert L Murphy   ^{4, 8} , MD ;   Maryann Mason   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Robert J Havey   ^{8, 9} , MD ;   Alexander L Lundberg   ^{1, 2} , PhD, MSc

¹ Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics, Robert J Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

² Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

³ Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

⁵ Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution, Robert J Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

⁶ Center for Global Communicable and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Robert J Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

⁷ Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

⁸ Robert J Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

⁹ Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States