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August 6, 2020August 8, 2020

CoMix: comparing mixing patterns in the Belgian population during and after lockdown

Coronavirus Pandemic

Publication date: Aug 06, 2020 Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how a newly emergent communicable disease can lay considerable burden on public health. To avoid system collapse, governments have ... Read more

August 5, 2020August 7, 2020

Phylodynamics reveals the role of human travel and contact tracing in controlling COVID-19 in four island nations

Coronavirus Pandemic

Publication date: Aug 05, 2020 Most populated corners of the planet have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined the progression of COVID-19 in four ... Read more

August 4, 2020August 6, 2020

Evaluating the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions for SARS-CoV-2 on a global scale

Coronavirus Clinical

Publication date: Aug 04, 2020 In the absence of a viable pharmaceutical intervention for SARS-CoV-2, governments have implemented a range of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to curb the spread of infection ... Read more

August 1, 2020August 1, 2020

Lower cortical gamma-aminobutyric acid level contributes to increased connectivity in sensory-motor regions in progressive MS.

Multiple Sclerosis Literature

Publication date: Aug 01, 2020 Large-scale functional abnormalities and decreased synchronization between functionally connected regions within brain networks were reported in progressive multiple sclerosis (P-MS) patients. Low concentration of gamma-aminobutyric ... Read more

July 28, 2020July 30, 2020

An Analysis of Territorial Patterns in COVID-19 Mortality in France, Spain, Italy and the UK

Coronavirus Discovery

Publication date: Jul 28, 2020 This paper provides an overview of territorial patterns of COVID-19 deaths in four European countries severely affected by the pandemic, Spain, France, Italy, and the ... Read more

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

COVID-19: A Data-Driven Mean-Field-Type Game Perspective

Coronavirus News

Publication date: Jul 23, 2020 In this article, a class of mean-field-type games with discrete-continuous state spaces is considered. We establish Bellman systems which provide sufficiency conditions for mean-field-type equilibria ... Read more

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

Using mobile phone data for epidemiological simulations of lockdowns: government interventions, behavioral changes, and resulting changes of reinfections

Coronavirus News

Publication date: Jul 23, 2020 Epidemiological simulations as a method are used to better understand and predict the spreading of infectious diseases, for example of COVID-19. This paper presents an ... Read more

July 25, 2020July 27, 2020

SIDIR: Extending SIR with Detected and Isolated Populations for Pandemic Modeling

Coronavirus Pandemic

Publication date: Jul 25, 2020 We extend the Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) model to include Detected (D) and Isolated (I) compartments (SIDIR). SIDIR improves COVID-19 outbreak behavior modeling by identifying ... Read more

July 24, 2020July 26, 2020

Threshold analyses on rates of testing, transmission, and contact for COVID-19 control in a university setting

Coronavirus Pandemic

Publication date: Jul 24, 2020 We simulated epidemic projections of a potential COVID-19 outbreak in a university population of 38,000 persons, under varying combinations of mass test rate (0% to ... Read more

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020

Climate & BCG: Effects on COVID-19 DeathGrowth Rates

Coronavirus News

Publication date: Jul 14, 2020 Multiple studies have suggested the spread of COVID-19 is affected by factors such as climate, BCG vaccinations, pollution and blood type. We perform a joint ... Read more