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A Multi-Period Curve Fitting Model for Short-Term Prediction of the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Metropolitans
The COVID-19 has wreaked havoc upon the world with over 248 million confirmed cases and a death toll of over 5 million. It is alarming that the United States contributes over 18% of these confirmed cases and 14% of the deaths. Researchers have proposed many forecasting models to predict the spread o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804280/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35118046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.809877 |
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author | Majeed, Bilal Li, Ang Peng, Jiming Lin, Ying |
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description | The COVID-19 has wreaked havoc upon the world with over 248 million confirmed cases and a death toll of over 5 million. It is alarming that the United States contributes over 18% of these confirmed cases and 14% of the deaths. Researchers have proposed many forecasting models to predict the spread of COVID-19 at the national, state, and county levels. However, due to the large variety in the mitigation policies adopted by various state and local governments; and unpredictable social events during the pandemic, it is incredibly challenging to develop models that can provide accurate long-term forecasting for disease spread. In this paper, to address such a challenge, we introduce a new multi-period curve fitting model to give a short-term prediction of the COVID-19 spread in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) within the United States. Since most counties/cities within a single MSA usually adopt similar mitigation strategies, this allows us to substantially diminish the variety in adopted mitigation strategies within an MSA. At the same time, the multi-period framework enables us to incorporate the impact of significant social events and mitigation strategies in the model. We also propose a simple heuristic to estimate the COVID-19 fatality based on our spread prediction. Numerical experiments show that the proposed multi-period curve model achieves reasonably high accuracy in the prediction of the confirmed cases and fatality. |
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spelling | pubmed-88042802022-02-02 A Multi-Period Curve Fitting Model for Short-Term Prediction of the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Metropolitans Majeed, Bilal Li, Ang Peng, Jiming Lin, Ying Front Public Health Public Health The COVID-19 has wreaked havoc upon the world with over 248 million confirmed cases and a death toll of over 5 million. It is alarming that the United States contributes over 18% of these confirmed cases and 14% of the deaths. Researchers have proposed many forecasting models to predict the spread of COVID-19 at the national, state, and county levels. However, due to the large variety in the mitigation policies adopted by various state and local governments; and unpredictable social events during the pandemic, it is incredibly challenging to develop models that can provide accurate long-term forecasting for disease spread. In this paper, to address such a challenge, we introduce a new multi-period curve fitting model to give a short-term prediction of the COVID-19 spread in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) within the United States. Since most counties/cities within a single MSA usually adopt similar mitigation strategies, this allows us to substantially diminish the variety in adopted mitigation strategies within an MSA. At the same time, the multi-period framework enables us to incorporate the impact of significant social events and mitigation strategies in the model. We also propose a simple heuristic to estimate the COVID-19 fatality based on our spread prediction. Numerical experiments show that the proposed multi-period curve model achieves reasonably high accuracy in the prediction of the confirmed cases and fatality. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8804280/ /pubmed/35118046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.809877 Text en Copyright © 2022 Majeed, Li, Peng and Lin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Majeed, Bilal Li, Ang Peng, Jiming Lin, Ying A Multi-Period Curve Fitting Model for Short-Term Prediction of the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Metropolitans |
title | A Multi-Period Curve Fitting Model for Short-Term Prediction of the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Metropolitans |
title_full | A Multi-Period Curve Fitting Model for Short-Term Prediction of the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Metropolitans |
title_fullStr | A Multi-Period Curve Fitting Model for Short-Term Prediction of the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Metropolitans |
title_full_unstemmed | A Multi-Period Curve Fitting Model for Short-Term Prediction of the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Metropolitans |
title_short | A Multi-Period Curve Fitting Model for Short-Term Prediction of the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Metropolitans |
title_sort | multi-period curve fitting model for short-term prediction of the covid-19 spread in the u.s. metropolitans |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804280/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35118046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.809877 |
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