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The world has seen in 2020 an unprecedented global outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, a new strain of coronavirus, causing the COVID-19 pandemic, and radically changing our lives and work conditions. Many scientists are working tirelessly to find a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Pierre Le Bras , Azimeh Gharavi , David A. Robb , Ana F. Vidal , Stefano Padilla , Mike J. Chantler

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive humanitarian and economic damage. Teams of scientists from a broad range of disciplines have searched for methods to help governments and communities combat the disease. One avenue from the machine…

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic revealed infodemics as an aggravating factor in health emergencies, a situation that enhanced the role of data verification journalism in crisis situations. This article aims to know the dynamics of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Alberto Dafonte-Gómez , María-Isabel Míguez-González , Xabier Martínez-Rolán

An infodemic is an emerging phenomenon caused by an overabundance of information online. This proliferation of information makes it difficult for the public to distinguish trustworthy news and credible information from untrustworthy sites…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Wentao Xu , Kazutoshi Sasahara

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 2020, there have been over 600 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than six million deaths as of October 2022. The relationship between the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Hanjia Lyu , Arsal Imtiaz , Yufei Zhao , Jiebo Luo

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, has raised a calamitous situation all over the world and has become one of the most acute and severe ailments in the past hundred years. The prevalence rate of COVID-19 is rapidly rising every day…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Md. Milon Islam , Fakhri Karray , Reda Alhajj , Jia Zeng

The Covid-19 pandemic presents a serious threat to people health, resulting in over 250 million confirmed cases and over 5 million deaths globally. To reduce the burden on national health care systems and to mitigate the effects of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Lauren Ansell , Luciana Dalla Valle

The COVID-19 pandemic has created widespread health and economical impacts, affecting millions around the world. To better understand these impacts, we present the TweetCOVID system that offers the capability to understand the public…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Jolin Shaynn-Ly Kwan , Kwan Hui Lim

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to infodemic of low quality information leading to poor health decisions. Combating the outcomes of this infodemic is not only a question of identifying false claims, but also reasoning about the decisions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Maria Leonor Pacheco , Tunazzina Islam , Monal Mahajan , Andrey Shor , Ming Yin , Lyle Ungar , Dan Goldwasser

Fact-checking-specific search tools such as Google Fact Check are a promising way to combat misinformation on social media, especially during events bringing significant social influence, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qiangeng Yang , Tess Christensen , Shlok Gilda , Juliana Fernandes , Daniela Oliveira , Ronald Wilson , Damon Woodard

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth the importance of epidemic forecasting for decision makers in multiple domains, ranging from public health to the economy as a whole. While forecasting epidemic progression is frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Alexander Rodríguez , Harshavardhan Kamarthi , Pulak Agarwal , Javen Ho , Mira Patel , Suchet Sapre , B. Aditya Prakash

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges worldwide. Strained healthcare providers make difficult decisions on patient triage, treatment and care management on a daily basis. Policy makers have imposed social distancing…

Governments across the world are currently facing the task of selecting suitable intervention strategies to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a highly challenging task, since harsh measures may result in economic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Andreas Kasis , Stelios Timotheou , Nima Monshizadeh , Marios Polycarpou

This paper investigates various ways in which a pandemic such as the novel coronavirus, could be predicted using different mathematical models. It also studies the various ways in which these models could be depicted using various…

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-16 Shailesh Bharati , Rahul Batra

The COVID-19 pandemic serves as a grim reminder of the unexpected nature of these outbreaks and gives rise to a unique set of research challenges in a variety of fields. As people all over the world adjust to this new 'normal', with most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Aditya Jyoti Paul

Due to the nature of the data and public interaction, twitter is becoming more and more useful to understand and model various events. The goal of CoronaVis is to use tweets as the information shared by the people to visualize topic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Md. Yasin Kabir , Sanjay Madria

The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced virtually all aspects of our lives. Across the world, countries have applied various mitigation strategies for the epidemic, based on social, political, and technological instruments. We postulate that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Wojciech Jamroga , David Mestel , Peter B. Roenne , Peter Y. A. Ryan , Marjan Skrobot

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the world, data is being gathered and analyzed to better understand the disease. Recognizing the potential for visual analytics technologies to support exploratory analysis and hypothesis…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-01 David Borland , Irena Brain , Karamarie Fecho , Emily Pfaff , Hao Xu , James Champion , Chris Bizon , David Gotz

COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) has been quickly spreading since its outbreak, impacting financial markets and healthcare systems globally. Countries all around the world have adopted a number of extraordinary steps to restrict the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Song Wu , Yazhou Ren , Aodi Yang , Xinyue Chen , Xiaorong Pu , Jing He , Liqiang Nie , Philip S. Yu

Currently, novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a big threat to global health. The rapid spread of the virus has created pandemic, and countries all over the world are struggling with a surge in COVID-19 infected cases. There are no…

Applications · Statistics 2020-09-08 Se Yoon Lee , Bowen Lei , Bani K. Mallick