Carla N Mavian,Massimiliano S Tagliamonte,Maclean Bassett,Meer Alam,Melanie N Cash,Matt Hitchings,Rigan Louis,Alberto Riva,Kayvan Zainabadi,Marie Marcelle Deschamps,Bernard Liautaud,Vanessa Rouzier,Daniel W Fitzgerald,Jean William Pape,J Glenn Morris,Marco Salemi
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We monitored SARS-CoV-2 variants in Haiti from 2020-2023. Despite Haitian COVID-19 travel restrictions and in the setting of a vaccination rate of 2.7%, the timing and lineage evolution of the Haiti epidemic mirrored what was occurring in the rest of the world. Sources for importation of lineages into Haiti were the United States (US), the Dominican Republic (DR), Europe, and Brazil, with exportation of lineages to the US, DR, Europe, and Asia. Viral load in patients infected by the Delta and Omicron BA.1 were correlated along the phylogenies, suggesting that higher viral loads have facilitated strain transmission and evolution.