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Surveillance Testing for Rapid Detection of Outbreaks in Facilities
Yanyue Ding, Sudesh K. Agrawal, Jincheng Cao +2
This paper develops an agent-based disease spread model on a contact network in an effort to guide efforts at surveillance testing in small to moderate facilities such as nursing h…
Reinforcement Learning for Optimization of COVID-19 Mitigation policies
Varun Kompella, Roberto Capobianco, Stacy Jong +5
The year 2020 has seen the COVID-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history. As a result, governments around the world are faced with the challenge of protecting…
Early Detection of Influenza outbreaks in the United States
Kai Liu, Ravi Srinivasan, Lauren Ancel Meyers
Public health surveillance systems often fail to detect emerging infectious diseases, particularly in resource limited settings. By integrating relevant clinical and internet-sourc…
Periodicity in Movement Patterns Shapes Epidemic Risk in Urban Environments
Zhanwei Du, Spencer J Fox, Petter Holme +3
Daily variation in human mobility modulates the speed and severity of emerging outbreaks, yet most epidemiological studies assume static contact patterns. With a highly mobile popu…
Local risk perception enhances epidemic control
José L. Herrera, Lauren Ancel Meyers
As infectious disease outbreaks emerge, public health agencies often enact vaccination and social distancing measures to slow transmission. Their success depends on not only strate…
Socioeconomic bias in influenza surveillance
Samuel V. Scarpino, James G. Scott, Rosalind M. Eggo +3
Individuals in low socioeconomic brackets are considered at-risk for developing influenza-related complications and often exhibit higher than average influenza-related hospitalizat…