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ReviewCurrent opinion in infectious diseases2025

Data science for pediatric infectious disease: utilizing COVID-19 as a model.

Bennett J Waxse, Suchitra Rao

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Bennett J WaxseNational Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Suchitra RaoDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.

Funding

Improving precision health approaches through large-scale EHRs and biobanksZIAHG200417 · NHGRI · NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI DENNY, JOSHUA · 2022 to 2024
$4.2M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HG200417
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and public health agencies used data science tools and data sources in real time to evaluate pathogen transmissibility, disease burden, healthcare capacity, and evaluate treatment and preventive measures. The purpose of the review is to highlight the application of these data sources and methods during the COVID-19 response. RECENT

findingsAdvances in the development of common data models enabled multisite data networks to overcome healthcare data fragmentation, enabling national surveillance platforms, and offering unprecedented statistical power to conduct national surveillance and detect emerging clinical entities like MIS-C and long COVID in diverse pediatric populations. These integrated networks were also used in evaluating the effectiveness of vaccines and therapies. New surveillance approaches combining traditional clinical data with novel data sources including wastewater detection, web-based search engines, and mobility patterns yielded comprehensive ensemble approaches that informed public health policy. SUMMARY: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of timely evidence for decision-making during outbreak responses and the benefits of using data science tools to help provide real time, actionable insights, which can help guide our public health response to infectious diseases threats in the future.

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COVID-19Data ScienceChildHumansPandemicsPediatricsPublic HealthSARS-CoV-2computable phenotypesCOVID-19data sciencemachine learningpandemic surveillance

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PMID40748012
PMCPMC12629321

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