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20202025
most citedImpacts of Social Distancing Policies on Mobility and COVID-19 Case Growth in the US

197 citations · 379 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2025

Modular Deep-Learning-Based Early Warning System for Deadly Heatwave Prediction

Shangqing Xu, Zhiyuan Zhao, Megha Sharma +4

Severe heatwaves in urban areas significantly threaten public health, calling for establishing early warning strategies. Despite predicting occurrence of heatwaves and attributing…

cs.LG2023

Optimizing Heat Alert Issuance with Reinforcement Learning

Ellen M. Considine, Rachel C. Nethery, Gregory A. Wellenius +2

A key strategy in societal adaptation to climate change is using alert systems to prompt preventative action and reduce the adverse health impacts of extreme heat events. This pape…

cs.SI2021

Vaccine Search Patterns Provide Insights into Vaccination Intent

Sean Malahy, Mimi Sun, Keith Spangler +20

Despite ample supply of COVID-19 vaccines, the proportion of fully vaccinated individuals remains suboptimal across much of the US. Rapid vaccination of additional people will prev…

cs.CR2021★ 8 cited

Google COVID-19 Vaccination Search Insights: Anonymization Process Description

Shailesh Bavadekar, Adam Boulanger, John Davis +22

This report describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the COVID-19 Vaccination Search Insights (published at http://goo.gle/covid19vaccinationinsights), a publ…

stat.AP2021★ 1 cited

Assessing the causal effects of a stochastic intervention in time series data: Are heat alerts effective in preventing deaths and hospitalizations?

Xiao Wu, Kate R. Weinberger, Gregory A. Wellenius +2

The methodological development of this paper is motivated by the need to address the following scientific question: does the issuance of heat alerts prevent adverse health effects?…

cs.CR2020★ 16 cited

Google COVID-19 Search Trends Symptoms Dataset: Anonymization Process Description (version 1.0)

Shailesh Bavadekar, Andrew Dai, John Davis +27

This report describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the initial version of COVID-19 Search Trends symptoms dataset (published at https://goo.gle/covid19sympt…

q-bio.PE2020★ 197 cited

Impacts of Social Distancing Policies on Mobility and COVID-19 Case Growth in the US

Gregory A. Wellenius, Swapnil Vispute, Valeria Espinosa +26

Social distancing remains an important strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. However, the impacts of specific state-level policies on mobility and subseque…

cs.CR2020★ 157 cited

Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports: Anonymization Process Description (version 1.1)

Ahmet Aktay, Shailesh Bavadekar, Gwen Cossoul +21

This document describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the initial version of Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports (published at http://google.com/covid…