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Coronavirus COVID-19 spreads through the population mostly based on social contact. To gauge the potential for widespread contagion, to cope with associated uncertainty and to inform its mitigation, more accurate and robust modelling is…

In mid of March 2020, Coronaviruses such as COVID-19 is declared as an international epidemic. More than 125000 confirmed cases and 4,607 death cases have been recorded around more than 118 countries. Unfortunately, a coronavirus vaccine is…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-18 Haytham H. Elmousalami , Aboul Ella Hassanien

An urgent problem in controlling COVID-19 spreading is to understand the role of undocumented infection. We develop a five-state model for COVID-19, taking into account the unique features of the novel coronavirus, with key parameters…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-27 Yong-Shang Long , Zheng-Meng Zhai , Li-Lei Han , Jie Kang , Yi-Lin Li , Zhao-Hua Lin , Lang Zeng , Da-Yu Wu , Chang-Qing Hao , Ming Tang , Zonghua Liu , Ying-Cheng Lai

Human civilization is experiencing a critical situation that presents itself for a new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This virus emerged in late December 2019 in Wuhan city, Hubei, China. The grim fact of COVID-19 is, it is highly…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Bikash Chandra Singh , Zulfikar Alom , Mohammad Muntasir Rahman , Mrinal Kanti Baowaly , Mohammad Abdul Azim

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has shown that when the reproduction number is high and there are no proper measurements in place, the number of infected people can increase dramatically in a short time, producing a phenomenon that many…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-20 Jonathan A. Chávez Casillas

In this paper, we study the effectiveness of the modelling approach on the pandemic due to the spreading of the novel COVID-19 disease and develop a susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) model that provides a theoretical framework to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-26 Ian Cooper , Argha Mondal , Chris G. Antonopoulos

The ongoing novel coronavirus epidemic has been announced a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, and the Govt. of India has declared a nationwide lockdown from March 25, 2020, to prevent community transmission of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-26 Subhas Khajanchi , Kankan Sarkar

Accurate forecasts of the number of newly infected people during an epidemic are critical for making effective timely decisions. This paper addresses this challenge using the SIMLR model, which incorporates machine learning (ML) into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Roberto Vega , Leonardo Flores , Russell Greiner

We propose a forecasting method for predicting epidemiological health series on a two-week horizon at the regional and interregional resolution. The approach is based on model order reduction of parametric compartmental models, and is…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-11 Athmane Bakhta , Thomas Boiveau , Yvon Maday , Olga Mula

SARS-COV-19 is the most prominent issue which many countries face today. The frequent changes in infections, recovered and deaths represents the dynamic nature of this pandemic. It is very crucial to predict the spreading rate of this virus…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-01 Sadhana Tiwari , Ritesh Chandra , Sonali Agarwal

The COVID-19 pandemic has profound global consequences on health, economic, social, political, and almost every major aspect of human life. Therefore, it is of great importance to model COVID-19 and other pandemics in terms of the broader…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Geoffrey C. Fox , Gregor von Laszewski , Fugang Wang , Saumyadipta Pyne

The spread of diseases has been studied for many years, but it receives a particular focus recently due to the outbreak and spread of COVID-19. Studies show that the spread of COVID-19 can be characterized by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xiaoxu Zhong , Yukun Ye

Pandemic(epidemic) modeling, aiming at disease spreading analysis, has always been a popular research topic especially following the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019. Some representative models including SIR-based deep learning prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Danfeng Guo , Zijie Huang , Junheng Hao , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang , Demetri Terzopoulos

We study the increases of infections and deaths in Sweden caused by COVID-19 with several different models: Firstly an analytical susceptible-infected (SI) model and the standard susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model. Then within the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-06 Chong Qi , Daniel Karlsson , Karl Sallmen , Ramon Wyss

While COVID-19 has impacted humans for a long time, people search the web for pandemic-related information, causing anxiety. From a theoretic perspective, previous studies have confirmed that the number of COVID-19 cases can cause negative…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Linjiang Guo , Zijian Feng , Yuxue Chi , Mingzhu Wang , Yijun Liu

Addressed in this work is the performance of five popular algorithms, which aim at assessing the dissemination dynamics of the COVID-19 disease on the basis of the time series of new confirmed cases. The tests are based on simulated data,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-10 Evangelos Matsinos

Early assessments of the spreading rate of COVID-19 were subject to significant uncertainty, as expected with limited data and difficulties in case ascertainment, but more reliable inferences can now be made. Here, we estimate from European…

We propose a general Bayesian approach to modeling epidemics such as COVID-19. The approach grew out of specific analyses conducted during the pandemic, in particular an analysis concerning the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions…

Applications · Statistics 2021-01-01 Samir Bhatt , Neil Ferguson , Seth Flaxman , Axel Gandy , Swapnil Mishra , James A. Scott

This work is a trial in which we propose SIR model and machine learning tools to analyze the coronavirus pandemic in the real world. Based on the public data from \cite{datahub}, we estimate main key pandemic parameters and make predictions…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-06 Babacar Mbaye Ndiaye , Lena Tendeng , Diaraf Seck

COVID-19 has challenged health systems to learn how to learn. This paper describes the context, methods and challenges for learning to improve COVID-19 care at one academic health center. Challenges to learning include: (1) choosing a right…