id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-295358-8niqpwvc Santamaria, Luis Chasing the ghost of infection past: identifying thresholds of change during the COVID-19 infection in Spain 2020-04-14 .txt text/plain 5690 231 51 We conducted segmented, linear regressions on log-transformed data to identify changes in the slope of these curves and/or sudden shifts in the number of cases (i.e. changes in the intercept) at fitted breaking points, and compared their results with a timeline including both key events of the epidemic and containment measures taken by the national and regional governments. The dropdown in the rate of infections coincides with an increase of the awareness of the Spanish population (due to the reporting of a rapidly increasing number of cases and deaths, i.e. the delayed perception of the events of phase 1) and the issuing of official recommendations for the prevention and treatment of COVID infections, but precedes the legal enforcement of most social-distancing measures by the regional and central governments (see Figure 5 , Table S1 ). ./cache/cord-295358-8niqpwvc.txt ./txt/cord-295358-8niqpwvc.txt