Detection of Real-Time Changes in Direction of COVID-19 Transmission Using National- and State-Level Epidemic Trends Based on Rt Estimates - United States Overall and New Mexico, April-October 2024

• Published in: MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report Vol. 73; no. 46; pp. 1058 - 1063
• Main Authors: Richard, Danielle M, Susswein, Zachary, Connolly, Sarah, Myers Y Gutiérrez, Adán, Thalathara, Roselyn, Carey, Kelly, Koumans, Emily H, Khan, Diba, Masters, Nina B, McIntosh, Nathan, Corbett, Patrick, Ghinai, Isaac, Kahn, Rebecca, Keen, Adrienne, Pulliam, Juliet, Sosin, Daniel, Gostic, Katelyn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Atlanta U.S. Center for Disease Control 21.11.2024; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Collaboration; COVID-19; Decision making; Disease transmission; Emergency medical care; Epidemics; Estimates; Full Report; Indication; Infections; Public health; Real time; Summer; Trends; New Mexico; United States > US
• ISSN: 1545-861X; 0149-2195; 1545-861X
• DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7346a3

Public health practitioners rely on timely surveillance data for planning and decision-making; however, surveillance data are often subject to delays. Epidemic trend categories, based on time-varying effective reproductive number (Rt) estimates that use nowcasting methods, can mitigate reporting lag...