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Title: Spatio-temporal prediction of the COVID-19 pandemic in US counties : modeling with a deep LSTM neural network
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Nikparvar, Behnam, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Hatami, Faizeh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Epidemiology, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Prediction of complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 is challenging on many grounds. Commonly used compartmental models struggle to handle an epidemiological process that evolves rapidly and is spatially heterogeneous. On the other hand,...

Title: Machine learning on the COVID-19 pandemic, human mobility and air quality : a review
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Machine learning, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic is touching every facet of human lives (e.g., public health, education, economy, transportation, and the environment). This novel pandemic and non-pharmaceutical interventions of lockdown and confinement implem...

Title: Exploring feasibility of multivariate deep learning models in predicting COVID-19 epidemic
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Paul, Rajib
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Deep learning (Machine learning), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Background: Mathematical models are powerful tools to study COVID-19. However, one fundamental challenge in current modeling approaches is the lack of accurate and comprehensive data. Complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 are especially...

Title: Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Vaccination
Description: In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increa...

Title: COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
Subjects--Topical: Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
Description: This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces, and residential areas, and lockdown measures in 88 countries aroun...

Title: A novel machine learning framework for comparison of viral COVID-19–related Sina Weibo and Twitter posts : workflow development and content analysis
Author: Chen, Shi, Zhou, Lina, Song, Yunya, Xu, Qian, Wang, Ping, Wang, Kanlun, Ge, Yaorong, Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Twitter (Firm), Social media, Machine learning
Description: Background: Social media plays a critical role in health communications, especially during global health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of a universal analytical framework to extract, quantify, and comp...

Title: The study of COVID-19 within the state of North Carolina in the United States
Author: Alzate, Cesar, Li, Xingjie Helen
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: Research on COVID-19 was done for North Carolina to assess local governmental policies, to measure COVID-19 growth rate, and to discover what predictors impact COVID-19 spread. Using a Time-Delayed SIR model, removal rates were calculated to compa...

Title: Fundamental evolution of all Orthocoronavirinae including three deadly lineages descendent from Chiroptera-hosted coronaviruses : SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Author: Machado, Denis Jacob, Scott, Rachel, Guirales, Sayal, Janies, Daniel
Subjects--Topical: Coronaviruses, SARS (Disease), MERS (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in humans in 2002. Despite reports showing Chiroptera as the original animal reservoir of SARS-CoV, many argue that Carnivora-hosted viruses are the most likely origin. The emerg...

Title: Fundamentals of genomic epidemiology, lessons learned from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and new directions
Author: Machado, Denis Jacob, White, Richard Allen, III, Kofsky, Janice, Janies, Daniel
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Epidemiology
Description: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the significant causes of death worldwide in 2020. The disease is caused by severe acute coronavirus syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), an RNA virus of the subfamily Orthocoronav...

Title: In fighting common threats, people’s deep commitment to taking collective action matters : examples from China’s COVID‑19 battle and her other combats
Author: Palko, Hannah Catherine, Xiang, Wei-Ning
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: China, Owen Lattimore, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: In fighting against common threats to human survival and well-being, be they from natural disaster or human conflict, people’s commitment to taking collective action matters and can make a huge or even decisive difference. Throughout human history...

Title: Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Hohl, Alexander, Desjardins, Michael R., Lan, Yu
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first discovered in late 2019 in Wuhan City, China. The virus may cause novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in symptomatic in- dividuals. Since December of 2019, there have...

Title: Associations between COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures and human mobility : longitudinal evidence from 86 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Social distancing (Public health), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Recognizing an urgent need to understand the dynamics of the pandemic's severity, this longitudinal study is conducted to explore the evolution of complex relationships between the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures, and social distancing patter...

Title: Public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccines : policy implications from us spatiotemporal sentiment analytics
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sentiment analysis, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: There is a compelling and pressing need to better understand the temporal dynamics of public sentiment towards COVID-19 vaccines in the US on a national and state-wise level for facilitating appropriate public policy applications. Our analysis of ...

Title: “Making peace” with bodies and sexual selves : changes during COVID-19 among adults in the United States
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Basinger, Erin, Montanaro, Erika
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Body image
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the physical and mental health of many and has necessitated widespread societal shifts, including changes to work and family activities. These changes have impacted individuals’ identity, including the...

Title: Impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination of children ages 5-11 years on COVID-19 disease burden and resilience to new variants in the United States, November 2021-March 2022 : A multi-model study
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Background The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub convened nine modeling teams to project the impact of expanding SARS-CoV-2 vaccination to children aged 5-11 years on COVID-19 burden and resilience against variant strains. Methods Teams contributed s...

Title: Contextualizing the experiences of Black pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic : ‘It’s been a lonely ride’
Author: Dahl, Alicia A., Yada, Farida N., Butts, Shanika Jerger, Tolley, Annalise, Hirsch, Sophie, Lalgondar, Priyanka, Wilson, Kala S.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Maternal health services, COVID-19 (Disease), Women, Black
Description: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed the prenatal care experience, specifically regarding medical appointments and social opportunities. It is critical to capture this change through the narratives of pregnant people, parti...

Title: Prosocial orientation and COVID‐19 vaccine willingness in the U.S.
Author: Canevello, Amy, Magid, Kirby, Jiang, Tao, Perry, Jasmine
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: Despite evidence of the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and their wide availability, many in the U.S. are not vaccinated. Research demonstrates that prosocial orientations predict COVID-19 health behaviors (e.g., social distancing) a...

Title: Risk-adjusted staffing policies to minimize perioperative staffing shortages during a pandemic : an agent-based simulation study
Author: Prabhu, Vishnunarayan G., Hand, William R., Isik, Tugce, Song, Yongjia
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Public health
Description: Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) safety and availability to care for patients are critical during a pandemic such as the one caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Among providers of different specialities, it is critical to protect ...

Title: Impact of short-term air pollution on respiratory infections : a time-series analysis of COVID-19 cases in California during the 2020 wildfire season
Author: Ademu, Lilian, Gao, Jingjing, Thompson, Onah Peter, Ademu, Lawrence Anebi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Environmental health
Description: The 2020 California wildfire season coincided with the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many counties in California, with impacts on air quality. We quantitatively analyzed the short-term effect of air pollution on COVID-19 transmission usi...

Title: Associations between public fear of COVID-19 and number of COVID-19 vaccinations : a county-level longitudinal analysis
Author: Ademu, Lilian, Guo, Yuqi, Gao, Jingjing
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: A large number of COVID-19 infections and deaths and the ensuing socioeconomic problems created widespread public fear around COVID-19. Fear around COVID-19 greatly influences people's attitudes towards receiving the COVID-19 vaccines. The purpose...