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Systematic analysis of the effectiveness of adding human mobility data to covid-19 case prediction linear models
Saad Mohammad Abrar, Naman Awasthi, Daniel Smolyak +1
Human mobility data has been extensively used in covid-19 case prediction models. Nevertheless, related work has questioned whether mobility data really helps that much. We present…
DemOpts: Fairness corrections in COVID-19 case prediction models
Naman Awasthi, Saad Abrar, Daniel Smolyak +1
COVID-19 forecasting models have been used to inform decision making around resource allocation and intervention decisions e.g., hospital beds or stay-at-home orders. State of the…
Assessing the Impact of Case Correction Methods on the Fairness of COVID-19 Predictive Models
Daniel Smolyak, Saad Abrar, Naman Awasthi +1
One of the central difficulties of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic has been accurately measuring and predicting the spread of infections. In particular, official COVID-19 case cou…
Auditing the Fairness of the US COVID-19 Forecast Hub's Case Prediction Models
Saad Mohammad Abrar, Naman Awasthi, Daniel Smolyak +1
The US COVID-19 Forecast Hub, a repository of COVID-19 forecasts from over 50 independent research groups, is used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for their…