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ArticleJournal of healthcare informatics research2021

PolSIRD: Modeling Epidemic Spread Under Intervention Policies: Analyzing the First Wave of COVID-19 in the USA.

Nitin Kamra, Yizhou Zhang, Sirisha Rambhatla, Chuizheng Meng, Yan Liu

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Article in Journal of healthcare informatics research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Modeling the Global Dynamic Contagion of COVID-19.Frontiers in public health · 2021
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5 authors.

Nitin KamraDepartment of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5205-6220
Yizhou ZhangDepartment of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA.
Sirisha RambhatlaDepartment of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA.
Chuizheng MengDepartment of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA.
Yan LiuDepartment of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epidemic spread in a population is traditionally modeled via compartmentalized models which represent the free evolution of disease in the absence of any intervention policies. In addition, these models assume full observability of disease cases and do not account for under-reporting. We present a mathematical model, namely PolSIRD, which accounts for the under-reporting by introducing an observation mechanism. It also captures the effects of intervention policies on the disease spread parameters by leveraging intervention policy data along with the reported disease cases. Furthermore, we allow our recurrent model to learn the initial hidden state of all compartments end-to-end along with other parameters via gradient-based training. We apply our model to the spread of the recent global outbreak of COVID-19 in the USA, where our model outperforms the methods employed by the CDC in predicting the spread. We also provide counterfactual simulations from our model to analyze the effect of lifting the intervention policies prematurely and our model correctly predicts the second wave of the epidemic.

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COVID-19Epidemic spread modelingIntervention policies for epidemicsMachine learning for epidemic spread modelingSpatiotemporal spread modeling

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PMID34151134
PMCPMC8202228

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