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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2022

COVID-19 Spread Mapper: a multi-resolution, unified framework and open-source tool.

Andy Shi, Sheila M Gaynor, Rounak Dey, Haoyu Zhang, Corbin Quick, Xihong Lin

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Andy ShiDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1319-9333
Sheila M GaynorDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7869-5223
Rounak DeyDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Haoyu ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6423-0444
Corbin QuickDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Xihong LinDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7067-7752
Harvard University · US

Funding

GRADUATE TRAINING IN BIOSTATISTICST32ES007142 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI Brent Andrew Coull · 1985 to 2026
$11.9M
NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007142
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryAmidst the continuing spread of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), real-time data analysis and visualization remain critical the general public to track the pandemic's impact and to inform policy making by officials. Multiple metrics permit the evaluation of the spread, infection and mortality of infectious diseases. For example, numbers of new cases and deaths provide easily interpretable measures of absolute impact within a given population and time frame, while the effective reproduction rate provides an epidemiological measure of the rate of spread. By evaluating multiple metrics concurrently, users can leverage complementary insights into the impact and current state of the pandemic when formulating prevention and safety plans for oneself and others. We describe COVID-19 Spread Mapper, a unified framework for estimating and quantifying the uncertainty in the smoothed daily effective reproduction number, case rate and death rate in a region using log-linear models. We apply this framework to characterize COVID-19 impact at multiple geographic resolutions, including by US county and state as well as by country, demonstrating the variation across resolutions and the need for harmonized efforts to control the pandemic. We provide an open-source online dashboard for real-time analysis and visualization of multiple key metrics, which are critical to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 and make informed policy decisions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Our model and tool are publicly available as implemented in R and hosted at https://metrics.covid19-analysis.org/. The source code is freely available from https://github.com/lin-lab/COVID19-Rt and https://github.com/lin-lab/COVID19-Viz. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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COVID-19HumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Software

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PMID35244140
PMCPMC9890301
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