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The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly contagious respiratory disease that was first detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and has since spread around the globe, claiming more than 69,000 lives by the time this protocol…

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After the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, it has influenced the health care practices around the world. Initial investigations indicate that patients with comorbidities are more fragile to this SARS-CoV-2 infection. They suggested postponing the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Bilal Ahmad , Sun Jun

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization. Since then, the disease has spread all over the world, with the United States becoming the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-08 Keshav Amla , Tarun Amla

Over the past few months, the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been expanding over the world. A reliable and accurate dataset of the cases is vital for scientists to conduct related research and for policy-makers to make…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-01 Guannan Wang , Zhiling Gu , Xinyi Li , Shan Yu , Myungjin Kim , Yueying Wang , Lei Gao , Li Wang

Technology is uniquely positioned to help us analyze large amounts of information to provide valuable insight during widespread public health concerns, like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, information technology companies like Apple…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jayati Dev

People use Online Social Media to make sense of crisis events. A pandemic crisis like the Covid-19 outbreak is a complex event, involving numerous aspects of the social life on multiple temporal scales. Focusing on the Spanish…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Bernat Esquirol , Luce Prignano , Albert Díaz-Guilera , Emanuele Cozzo

Online social media provides a channel for monitoring people's social behaviors and their mental distress. Due to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 people are increasingly using online social networks to express their feelings.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Sahraoui Dhelim , Liming Luke Chen , Huansheng Ning , Sajal K Das , Chris Nugent , Devin Burns , Gerard Leavey , Dirk Pesch , Eleanor Bantry-White

The construction and application of knowledge graphs have seen a rapid increase across many disciplines in recent years. Additionally, the problem of uncovering relationships between developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Dominic Flocco , Bryce Palmer-Toy , Ruixiao Wang , Hongyu Zhu , Rishi Sonthalia , Junyuan Lin , Andrea L. Bertozzi , P. Jeffrey Brantingham

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many problems, especially in people's social lives. There has been increasing isolation and economic hardships since the beginning of the pandemic for people all over the world. Quarantines and lockdowns…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Dino Husnic , Stefan Cobeli , Shweta Yadav

As of writing this paper, COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) has spread to more than 220 countries and territories. Following the outbreak, the pandemic's seriousness has made people more active on social media, especially on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Rabindra Lamsal , Aaron Harwood , Maria Rodriguez Read

The discovery of SARS-CoV-2, the responsible virus for the Covid-19 epidemic, has sparked a global health concern with many countries affected. Developing models that can interpret the epidemic and give common trend parameters are useful…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-21 Milad Radiom , Jean-Franccois Berret

Many in the US were reluctant to report their COVID-19 cases at the height of the pandemic (e.g., for fear of missing work or other obligations due to quarantine mandates). Other methods such as using public social media data can therefore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shrivu Shankar , Dhiraj Murthy , Hassan Dashtian

Social scientists and psychologists take interest in understanding how people express emotions and sentiments when dealing with catastrophic events such as natural disasters, political unrest, and terrorism. The COVID-19 pandemic is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Rohitash Chandra , Aswin Krishna

Though significant efforts such as removing false claims and promoting reliable sources have been increased to combat COVID-19 "misinfodemic", it remains an unsolved societal challenge if lacking a proper understanding of susceptible online…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xian Teng , Yu-Ru Lin , Wen-Ting Chung , Ang Li , Adriana Kovashka

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a COVID-19 was a global pandemic in March 2020. It was initially started in china in the year 2019 December and affected an expanding number of nations in various countries in the last few…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Kranthi Kumar Lella , Alphonse PJA

Quantifying the characteristics of public attention is an essential prerequisite for appropriate crisis management during severe events such as pandemics. For this purpose, we propose language-agnostic tweet representations to perform…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Oguzhan Gencoglu

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a public health emergency of international concern affecting 201 countries and territories around the globe. As of April 4, 2020, it has caused a pandemic outbreak with more than 11,16,643…

Applications · Statistics 2022-07-18 Tanujit Chakraborty , Indrajit Ghosh

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak is drastically shaping and reshaping many aspects of our life, with a huge impact on our social life. In this era of lockdown policies in most of the major cities around the world, we see a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Koosha Zarei , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi , Gareth Tyson

The spread of pandemics such as COVID-19 is strongly linked to human activities. The objective of this paper is to specify and examine early indicators of disease spread risk in cities during the initial stages of outbreak based on patterns…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-22 Xinyu Gao , Chao Fan , Yang Yang , Sanghyeon Lee , Qingchun Li , Mikel Maron , Ali Mostafavi

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 31, 2020. However, rumors of a "mysterious virus" had already been circulating in China in December…

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