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ArticleRoyal Society open science2021

Estimating COVID-19 cases and outbreaks on-stream through phone calls.

Ezequiel Alvarez, Daniela Obando, Sebastian Crespo, Enio Garcia, Nicolas Kreplak, Franco Marsico

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ezequiel AlvarezInternational Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS), ICIFI-CONICET ECyT-UNSAM, Campus Miguelete, 25 de Mayo y Francia, CP1650, San Martìn, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-6780-4415
Daniela ObandoMinisterio de Salud de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sebastian CrespoMinisterio de Salud de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Enio GarciaMinisterio de Salud de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Nicolas KreplakMinisterio de Salud de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Franco MarsicoMinisterio de Salud de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ministerio de Salud - Provincia de Buenos Aires · ARConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · AR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the main problems in controlling COVID-19 epidemic spread is the delay in confirming cases. Having information on changes in the epidemic evolution or outbreaks rise before laboratory-confirmation is crucial in decision making for Public Health policies. We present an algorithm to estimate on-stream the number of COVID-19 cases using the data from telephone calls to a COVID-line. By modelling the calls as background (proportional to population) plus signal (proportional to infected), we fit the calls in Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) with coefficient of determination

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correlationCOVID-19early-alarm, live-trackingphone calls

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PMID33959370
PMCPMC8074976
OpenAlexW3092961586

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