Taking the pulse of COVID-19: A spatiotemporal perspective
Abstract
The sudden outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swept across the world in early 2020, triggering the lockdowns of several billion people across many countries, including China, Spain, India, the U.K., Italy, France, Germany, and most states of the U.S. The transmission of the virus accelerated rapidly with the most confirmed cases in the U.S., and New York City became an epicenter of the pandemic by the end of March. In response to this national and global emergency, the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center brought together a taskforce of international researchers and assembled implemented strategies to rapidly respond to this crisis, for supporting research, saving lives, and protecting the health of global citizens. This perspective paper presents our collective view on the global health emergency and our effort in collecting, analyzing, and sharing relevant data on global policy and government responses, geospatial indicators of the outbreak and evolving forecasts; in developing research capabilities and mitigation measures with global scientists, promoting collaborative research on outbreak dynamics, and reflecting on the dynamic responses from human societies.
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@article{arxiv.2005.04224,
title = {Taking the pulse of COVID-19: A spatiotemporal perspective},
author = {Chaowei Yang and Dexuan Sha and Qian Liu and Yun Li and Hai Lan and Weihe Wendy Guan and Tao Hu and Zhenlong Li and Zhiran Zhang and John Hoot Thompson and Zifu Wang and David Wong and Shiyang Ruan and Manzhu Yu and Douglas Richardson and Luyao Zhang and Ruizhi Hou and You Zhou and Cheng Zhong and Yifei Tian and Fayez Beaini and Kyla Carte and Colin Flynn and Wei Liu and Dieter Pfoser and Shuming Bao and Mei Li and Haoyuan Zhang and Chunbo Liu and Jie Jiang and Shihong Du and Liang Zhao and Mingyue Lu and Lin Li and Huan Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.04224},
year = {2020}
}
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27 pages, 18 figures. International Journal of Digital Earth (2020)