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Shibuya Y, Jones N, Sekimoto Y. Assessing internal displacement patterns in Ukraine during the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022. Sci Rep 2024; 14:11123. [PMID: 38750106 PMCID: PMC11096167 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59814-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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Given the worldwide increase of forcibly displaced populations, particularly internally displaced persons (IDPs), it's crucial to have an up-to-date and precise tracking framework for population movements. Here, we study how the spatial and temporal pattern of a large-scale internal population movement can be monitored using human mobility datasets by exploring the case of IDPs in Ukraine at the beginning of the Russian invasion of 2022. Specifically, this study examines the sizes and travel distances of internal displacements based on GPS human mobility data, using the combinations of mobility pattern estimation methods such as truncated power law fitting and visualizing the results for humanitarian operations. Our analysis reveals that, although the city of Kyiv started to lose its population around 5 weeks before the invasion, a significant drop happened in the second week of the invasion (4.3 times larger than the size of the population lost in 5 weeks before the invasion), and the population coming to the city increased again from the third week of the invasion, indicating that displaced people started to back to their homes. Meanwhile, adjacent southern areas of Kyiv and the areas close to the western borders experienced many migrants from the first week of the invasion and from the second to third weeks of the invasion, respectively. In addition, people from relatively higher-wealth areas tended to relocate their home locations far away from their original locations compared to those from other areas. For example, 19 % of people who originally lived in higher wealth areas in the North region, including the city of Kyiv, moved their home location more than 500 km, while only 9 % of those who originally lived in lower wealth areas in the North region moved their home location more than 500 km..
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Li R, Song Y, Qu H, Li M, Jiang GP. A data-driven epidemic model with human mobility and vaccination protection for COVID-19 prediction. J Biomed Inform 2024; 149:104571. [PMID: 38092247 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2023] [Revised: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Epidemiological models allow for quantifying the dynamic characteristics of large-scale outbreaks. However, capturing detailed and accurate epidemiological information often requires consideration of multiple kinetic mechanisms and parameters. Due to the uncertainty of pandemic evolution, such as pathogen variation, host immune response and changes in mitigation strategies, the parameter evaluation and state prediction of complex epidemiological models are challenging. Here, we develop a data-driven epidemic model with a generalized SEIR mechanistic structure that includes new compartments, human mobility and vaccination protection. To address the issue of model complexity, we embed the epidemiological model dynamics into physics-informed neural networks (PINN), taking the observed series of time instances as direct input of the network to simultaneously infer unknown parameters and unobserved dynamics of the underlying model. Using actual data during the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia, Israel, and Switzerland, our model framework demonstrates satisfactory performance in multi-step ahead predictions compared to several benchmark models. Moreover, our model infers time-varying parameters such as transmission rates, hospitalization ratios, and effective reproduction numbers, as well as calculates the latent period and asymptomatic infection count, which are typically unreported in public data. Finally, we employ the proposed data-driven model to analyze the impact of different mitigation strategies on COVID-19.
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- Ruqi Li
- School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
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- College of Automation and College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China.
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- School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
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- College of Automation and College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
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- College of Automation and College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
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Chaves JC, da Silva MA, Alencar RDS, Evsukoff AG, Vieira VDF. Human mobility and socioeconomic datasets of the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area. Data Brief 2023; 51:109695. [PMID: 37965603 PMCID: PMC10641473 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023] Open
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This data descriptor presents two main datasets and a set of auxiliary files. The mobility dataset presents a long-term study of human mobility in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area (RJMA) performed in the entire year of 2014 based on mobile phone data. The socioeconomic dataset presents selected socioeconomic variables of the Brazilian 2010 census. A set of auxiliary files is included to present georeferenced information and geographic features (shapefiles) and data used to validate the mobility estimates. The human mobility estimation was carried out using a methodology that allows direct integration with census data, based on an approximation of the geographic boundaries of census units by an aggregation of Voronoi polygons of the mobile phone antennas. The study area is the Brazilian local area 21, which includes the entire RJMA and four other municipalities. The mobility dataset is divided into two files: one is an estimation of the origin-destination (OD) matrix per day, and the other is a visitors' dataset where the number of visitors of each location is estimated in four shifts each day. The socioeconomic dataset presents information of 55 variables for each location, which have been used in different studies and present the longest human mobility dataset available for public use.
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- Júlio César Chaves
- EMAp/Getulio Vargas Foundation, Praia de Botafogo 190, Botafogo, 22253-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- EMAp/Getulio Vargas Foundation, Praia de Botafogo 190, Botafogo, 22253-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Li H, Huang J, Lian X, Zhao Y, Yan W, Zhang L, Li L. Impact of human mobility on the epidemic spread during holidays. Infect Dis Model 2023; 8:1108-1116. [PMID: 37859862 PMCID: PMC10582379 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2023.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023] Open
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COVID-19 has posed formidable challenges as a significant global health crisis. Its complexity stems from factors like viral contagiousness, population density, social behaviors, governmental regulations, and environmental conditions, with interpersonal interactions and large-scale activities being particularly pivotal. To unravel these complexities, we used a modified SEIR epidemiological model to simulate various outbreak scenarios during the holiday season, incorporating both inter-regional and intra-regional human mobility effects into the parameterization scheme. In addition, evaluation metrics were used to evaluate the accuracy of the model simulation by comparing the congruence between simulated results and recorded confirmed cases. The findings suggested that intra-city mobility led to an average surge of 57.35% in confirmed cases of China, while inter-city mobility contributed to an average increase of 15.18%. In the simulation for Tianjin, China, a one-week delay in human mobility attenuated the peak number of cases by 34.47% and postponed the peak time by 6 days. The simulation for the United States revealed that human mobility played a more pronounced part in the outbreak, with a notable disparity in peak cases when mobility was considered. This study highlights that while inter-regional mobility acted as a trigger for the epidemic spread, the diffusion effect of intra-regional mobility was primarily responsible for the outbreak. We have a better understanding on how human mobility and infectious disease epidemics interact, and provide empirical evidence that could contribute to disease prevention and control measures.
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- Han Li
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
- College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
- College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
- College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
- College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
- College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
- College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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Kwon H, Koylu C. Revealing associations between spatial time series trends of COVID-19 incidence and human mobility: an analysis of bidirectionality and spatiotemporal heterogeneity. Int J Health Geogr 2023; 22:33. [PMID: 38012610 PMCID: PMC10683178 DOI: 10.1186/s12942-023-00357-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Using human mobility as a proxy for social interaction, previous studies revealed bidirectional associations between COVID-19 incidence and human mobility. For example, while an increase in COVID-19 cases may affect mobility to decrease due to lockdowns or fear, conversely, an increase in mobility can potentially amplify social interactions, thereby contributing to an upsurge in COVID-19 cases. Nevertheless, these bidirectional relationships exhibit variations in their nature, evolve over time, and lack generalizability across different geographical contexts. Consequently, a systematic approach is required to detect functional, spatial, and temporal variations within the intricate relationship between disease incidence and mobility. METHODS We introduce a spatial time series workflow to investigate the bidirectional associations between human mobility and disease incidence, examining how these associations differ across geographic space and throughout different waves of a pandemic. By utilizing daily COVID-19 cases and mobility flows at the county level during three pandemic waves in the US, we conduct bidirectional Granger causality tests for each county and wave. Furthermore, we employ dynamic time warping to quantify the similarity between the trends of disease incidence and mobility, enabling us to map the spatial distribution of trends that are either similar or dissimilar. RESULTS Our analysis reveals significant bidirectional associations between COVID-19 incidence and mobility, and we develop a typology to explain the variations in these associations across waves and counties. Overall, COVID-19 incidence exerts a greater influence on mobility than vice versa, but the correlation between the two variables exhibits a stronger connection during the initial wave and weakens over time. Additionally, the relationship between COVID-19 incidence and mobility undergoes changes in direction and significance for certain counties across different waves. These shifts can be attributed to alterations in disease control measures and the presence of evolving confounding factors that differ both spatially and temporally. CONCLUSIONS This study provides insights into the spatial and temporal dynamics of the relationship between COVID-19 incidence and human mobility across different waves. Understanding these variations is crucial for informing the development of more targeted and effective healthcare policies and interventions, particularly at the city or county level where such policies must be implemented. Although we study the association between mobility and COVID-19 incidence, our workflow can be applied to investigate the associations between the time series trends of various infectious diseases and relevant contributing factors, which play a role in disease transmission.
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- Hoeyun Kwon
- Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
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- Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Hu S, Xiong C, Zhao Y, Yuan X, Wang X. Vaccination, human mobility, and COVID-19 health outcomes: Empirical comparison before and during the outbreak of SARS-Cov-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) variant. Vaccine 2023; 41:5097-5112. [PMID: 37270367 PMCID: PMC10234469 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.05.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The B.1.1.529 (Omicron) variant surge has raised concerns about the effectiveness of vaccines and the impact of imprudent reopening. Leveraging over two years of county-level COVID-19 data in the US, this study aims to investigate relationships among vaccination, human mobility, and COVID-19 health outcomes (assessed via case rate and case-fatality rate), controlling for socioeconomic, demographic, racial/ethnic, and partisan factors. A set of cross-sectional models was first fitted to empirically compare disparities in COVID-19 health outcomes before and during the Omicron surge. Then, time-varying mediation analyses were employed to delineate how the effects of vaccine and mobility on COVID-19 health outcomes vary over time. Results showed that vaccine effectiveness against case rate lost significance during the Omicron surge, while its effectiveness against case-fatality rate remained significant throughout the pandemic. We also documented salient structural inequalities in COVID-19-related outcomes, with disadvantaged populations consistently bearing a larger brunt of case and death tolls, regardless of high vaccination rates. Last, findings revealed that mobility presented a significantly positive relationship with case rates during each wave of variant outbreak. Mobility substantially mediated the direct effect from vaccination to case rate, leading to a 10.276 % (95 % CI: 6.257, 14.294) decrease in vaccine effectiveness on average. Altogether, our study implies that sole reliance on vaccination to halt COVID-19 needs to be re-examined. Well-resourced and coordinated efforts to enhance vaccine effectiveness, mitigate health disparity and selectively loosen non-pharmaceutical interventions are essential to bringing the pandemic to an end.
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- Songhua Hu
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University, PA 19085, United States.
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- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University, PA 19085, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University, PA 19085, United States
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Bei H, Li P, Cai Z, Murcio R. The impact of COVID-19 vaccination on human mobility: The London case. Heliyon 2023; 9:e18769. [PMID: 37636432 PMCID: PMC10447923 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global public health crisis, causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. As an early response, different lockdowns were imposed in the UK (and the world) to limit the spread of the disease. Although effective, these measures profoundly impacted mobility patterns across cities, significantly reducing the number of people commuting to work or travelling for leisure. As different governments introduced massive vaccination programs to tackle the pandemic, cities have significantly but slowly increased human mobility, enabling the resumption of travel, work, and social activities. Nevertheless, how much can this return to normal mobility patterns be attributed to vaccines? In this study, we answer this question using a statistical approach, analysing two different open urban mobility datasets to quantify the effect vaccination rollouts have had on increased human activities.
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- Honghan Bei
- School of Maritime Economics and Management, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, People's Republic of China
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Transport Studies, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, People's Republic of China
- School of Management, Shangai University, 149 Yanchang Road, Shanghai, Shanghai Province, People's Republic of China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Transport Studies, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, People's Republic of China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Transport Studies, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Geography, Birkbeck, London University, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
- Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TJ, UK
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Yao Y, Guo Z, Huang X, Ren S, Hu Y, Dong A, Guan Q. Gauging urban resilience in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic via social network analysis. Cities 2023; 138:104361. [PMID: 37162758 PMCID: PMC10156992 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 05/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Social distancing policies and other restrictive measures have demonstrated efficacy in curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, these interventions have concurrently led to short- and long-term alterations in social connectedness. Comprehending the transformation in intracity social interactions is imperative for facilitating post-pandemic recovery and development. In this research, we employ social network analysis (SNA) to delve into the nuances of urban resilience. Specifically, we constructed intricate networks utilizing human mobility data to represent the impact of social interactions on the structural attributes of social networks while assessing urban resilience by examining the stability features of social connectedness. Our findings disclose a diverse array of responses to social distancing policies regarding social connectedness and varied social reactions across U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Social networks generally exhibited a shift from dense to sparse configurations during restrictive orders, followed by a transition from sparse to dense arrangements upon relaxation of said orders. Furthermore, we analyzed the alterations in social connectedness as demonstrated by network centrality, which can presumably be attributed to the rigidity of policies and the inherent qualities of the examined MSAs. Our findings contribute valuable scientific insights to support informed decision-making for post-pandemic recovery and development initiatives.
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- Yao Yao
- School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, Hubei Province, China
- Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8568, Japan
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- School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, Hubei Province, China
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72762, USA
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Central Southern China Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd., China Power Engineering Consulting Group, China
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- School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, Hubei Province, China
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- School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, Hubei Province, China
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Qiao M, Huang B. COVID-19 spread prediction using socio-demographic and mobility-related data. Cities 2023; 138:104360. [PMID: 37159808 PMCID: PMC10156989 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2022] [Revised: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Studying the impacts of factors that may vary spatially and temporally as infectious disease progresses is critical for the prediction and intervention of COVID-19. This study aimed to quantitatively assess the spatiotemporal impacts of socio-demographic and mobility-related factors to predict the spread of COVID-19. We designed two different schemes that enhanced temporal and spatial features respectively, and both with the geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) model adopted to consider the heterogeneity and non-stationarity problems, to reveal the spatiotemporal associations between the factors and the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Results indicate that our two schemes are effective in facilitating the accuracy of predicting the spread of COVID-19. In particular, the temporally enhanced scheme quantifies the impacts of the factors on the temporal spreading trend of the epidemic at the city level. Simultaneously, the spatially enhanced scheme figures out how the spatial variances of the factors determine the spatial distribution of the COVID-19 cases among districts, particularly between the urban area and the surrounding suburbs. Findings provide potential policy implications in terms of dynamic and adaptive anti-epidemic.
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- Mengling Qiao
- Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
- Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
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Nguyen MH, Nguyen THT, Molenberghs G, Abrams S, Hens N, Faes C. The impact of national and international travel on spatio-temporal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Belgium in 2021. BMC Infect Dis 2023; 23:428. [PMID: 37355572 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-023-08368-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly spread over the world and caused tremendous impacts on global health. Understanding the mechanism responsible for the spread of this pathogen and the impact of specific factors, such as human mobility, will help authorities to tailor interventions for future SARS-CoV-2 waves or newly emerging airborne infections. In this study, we aim to analyze the spatio-temporal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Belgium at municipality level between January and December 2021 and explore the effect of different levels of human travel on disease incidence through the use of counterfactual scenarios. METHODS We applied the endemic-epidemic modelling framework, in which the disease incidence decomposes into endemic, autoregressive and neighbourhood components. The spatial dependencies among areas are adjusted based on actual connectivity through mobile network data. We also took into account other important factors such as international mobility, vaccination coverage, population size and the stringency of restriction measures. RESULTS The results demonstrate the aggravating effect of international travel on the incidence, and simulated counterfactual scenarios further stress the alleviating impact of a reduction in national and international travel on epidemic growth. It is also clear that local transmission contributed the most during 2021, and municipalities with a larger population tended to attract a higher number of cases from neighboring areas. CONCLUSIONS Although transmission between municipalities was observed, local transmission was dominant. We highlight the positive association between the mobility data and the infection spread over time. Our study provides insight to assist health authorities in decision-making, particularly when the disease is airborne and therefore likely influenced by human movement.
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- Minh Hanh Nguyen
- Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, BE-3500, Hasselt, Belgium.
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- Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, BE-3500, Hasselt, Belgium
- I-BioStat, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE-3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, BE-3500, Hasselt, Belgium
- Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, BE-2000, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, BE-3500, Hasselt, Belgium
- Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, BE-2000, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, BE-2000, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, BE-3500, Hasselt, Belgium
- I-BioStat, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE-3000, Leuven, Belgium
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Wang K, Han X, Dong L, Chen XJ, Xiu G, Kwan MP, Liu Y. Quantifying the spatial spillover effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on pandemic risk. Int J Health Geogr 2023; 22:13. [PMID: 37286988 DOI: 10.1186/s12942-023-00335-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented in one place can affect neighboring regions by influencing people's behavior. However, existing epidemic models for NPIs evaluation rarely consider such spatial spillover effects, which may lead to a biased assessment of policy effects. METHODS Using the US state-level mobility and policy data from January 6 to August 2, 2020, we develop a quantitative framework that includes both a panel spatial econometric model and an S-SEIR (Spillover-Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered) model to quantify the spatial spillover effects of NPIs on human mobility and COVID-19 transmission. RESULTS The spatial spillover effects of NPIs explain [Formula: see text] [[Formula: see text] credible interval: 52.8-[Formula: see text]] of national cumulative confirmed cases, suggesting that the presence of the spillover effect significantly enhances the NPI influence. Simulations based on the S-SEIR model further show that increasing interventions in only a few states with larger intrastate human mobility intensity significantly reduce the cases nationwide. These region-based interventions also can carry over to interstate lockdowns. CONCLUSIONS Our study provides a framework for evaluating and comparing the effectiveness of different intervention strategies conditional on NPI spillovers, and calls for collaboration from different regions.
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- Keli Wang
- Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration & Its Applications, Peking University, Beijing, 100091, China
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- The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- School of Economics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration & Its Applications, Peking University, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration & Its Applications, Peking University, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration & Its Applications, Peking University, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
- Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration & Its Applications, Peking University, Beijing, 100091, China.
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Shen J. Modelling the roles of visitor flows and returning migrants in the spatial diffusion of COVID-19 from Wuhan city in China. Appl Geogr 2023; 155:102971. [PMID: 37123661 PMCID: PMC10121107 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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COVID-19 has spread to many cities and countries in the world since the major outbreak in Wuhan city in later 2019. Population flow is the main channel of COVID-19 transmission between different cities and countries. This study recognizes that the flows of different population groups such as visitors and migrants returning to hometown are different in nature due to different length of stay and exposure to infection risks, contributing to the spatial diffusion of COVID-19 differently. To model population flows and the spatial diffusion of COVID-19 more accurately, a population group based SEIR (susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered) metapopulation model is developed consisting of 32 regions including Wuhan, the rest of Hubei and other 30 provinces in Mainland China. The paper found that, in terms of the total export, Wuhan residents as visitors and Wuhan migrants returned to hometown were the first and second largest contributors in the simulation period. In terms of the net export, Wuhan migrants returned to hometown were the largest contributor, followed by Wuhan residents as visitors.
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- Jianfa Shen
- Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
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Meng X, Guo M, Gao Z, Kang L. Interaction between travel restriction policies and the spread of COVID-19. Transp Policy (Oxf) 2023; 136:209-227. [PMID: 37065273 PMCID: PMC10086066 DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2023.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Revised: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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To investigate the interaction between travel restriction policies and the spread of COVID-19, we collected data on human mobility trends, population density, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, daily new confirmed cases (or deaths), and the total confirmed cases (or deaths), as well as governmental travel restriction policies from 33 countries. The data collection period was from April 2020 to February 2022, resulting in 24,090 data points. We then developed a structural causal model to describe the causal relationship between these variables. Using the Dowhy method to solve the developed model, we found several significant results that passed the refutation test. Specifically, travel restriction policies played an important role in slowing the spread of COVID-19 until May 2021. International travel controls and school closures had an impact on reducing the spread of the pandemic beyond the impact of travel restrictions. Additionally, May 2021 marked a turning point in the spread of COVID-19 as it became more infectious, but the mortality rate gradually decreased. The impact of travel restriction policies on human mobility and the pandemic diminished over time. Overall, the cancellation of public events and restrictions on public gatherings were more effective than other travel restriction policies. Our findings provide insights into the effects of travel restriction policies and travel behavioral changes on the spread of COVID-19, while controlling for informational and other confounding variables. This experience can be applied in the future to respond to emergent infectious diseases.
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- Xin Meng
- School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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Guardabascio B, Brogi F, Benassi F. Measuring human mobility in times of trouble: an investigation of the mobility of European populations during COVID-19 using big data. Qual Quant 2023:1-19. [PMID: 37359960 PMCID: PMC10182752 DOI: 10.1007/s11135-023-01678-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Spatial mobility is a distinctive feature of human history and has important repercussions in many aspects of societies. Spatial mobility has always been a subject of interest in many disciplines, even if only mobility observable from traditional sources, namely migration (internal and international) and more recently commuting, is generally studied. However, it is the other forms of mobility, that is, the temporary forms of mobility, that most interest today's societies and, thanks to new data sources, can now be observed and measured. This contribution provides an empirical and data-driven reflection on human mobility during the COVID pandemic crisis. The paper has two main aims: (a) to develop a new index for measuring the attrition in mobility due to the restrictions adopted by governments in order to contain the spread of COVID-19. The robustness of the proposed index is checked by comparing it with the Oxford Stringency Index. The second goal is (b) to test if and how digital footprints (Google data in our case) can be used to measure human mobility. The study considers Italy and all the other European countries. The results show, on the one hand, that the Mobility Restriction Index (MRI) works quite well and, on the other, the sensitivity, in the short term, of human mobility to exogenous shocks and intervention policies; however, the results also show an inner tendency, in the middle term, to return to previous behaviours.
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- Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Rome, Italy
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Rapti Z, Cuevas-Maraver J, Kontou E, Liu S, Drossinos Y, Kevrekidis PG, Barmann M, Chen QY, Kevrekidis GA. The Role of Mobility in the Dynamics of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Andalusia. Bull Math Biol 2023; 85:54. [PMID: 37166513 PMCID: PMC10173246 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-023-01152-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Metapopulation models have been a popular tool for the study of epidemic spread over a network of highly populated nodes (cities, provinces, countries) and have been extensively used in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the present work, we revisit such a model, bearing a particular case example in mind, namely that of the region of Andalusia in Spain during the period of the summer-fall of 2020 (i.e., between the first and second pandemic waves). Our aim is to consider the possibility of incorporation of mobility across the province nodes focusing on mobile-phone time-dependent data, but also discussing the comparison for our case example with a gravity model, as well as with the dynamics in the absence of mobility. Our main finding is that mobility is key toward a quantitative understanding of the emergence of the second wave of the pandemic and that the most accurate way to capture it involves dynamic (rather than static) inclusion of time-dependent mobility matrices based on cell-phone data. Alternatives bearing no mobility are unable to capture the trends revealed by the data in the context of the metapopulation model considered herein.
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- Z Rapti
- Department of Mathematics and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
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- Grupo de Física No Lineal, Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Universidad de Sevilla, Escuela Politécnica Superior, C/ Virgen de Africa, 7, 41011, Seville, Spain
- Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla (IMUS), Edificio Celestino Mutis, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Thermal Hydraulics and Multiphase Flow Laboratory, Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and Technology, Energy and Safety, N.C.S.R. "Demokritos", 15341, Agia Paraskevi, Greece
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01003-4515, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01003-4515, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01003-4515, USA
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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Tong YD, Maraseni T, Nguyen PD, An-Vo DA, Mancuso Tradenta J, Tran TAD. Potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings from replacing short motorcycle trips with active travel modes in Vietnam. Transportation (Amst) 2023:1-20. [PMID: 37363369 PMCID: PMC10166047 DOI: 10.1007/s11116-023-10394-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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In reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, there is a recognition triggered by the pandemic of the role that walking and cycling (active travel) can make to substitute motorized travel, particularly on short trips. However, there is a lack of evidence at the micro level on the realistic, empirically derived, potential of these options. Here, we used reliable tracing data to examine the potential of these mitigation options for reducing GHG emissions in Vietnam. Apart from similar categories of travel purposes as in other studies, we decided to categorize "visit relatives" and "eating out" as two more separate categories of travel purposes in Vietnamese case, which together accounts for nearly 16% of total trips. We discovered that 65% of all motorcycle trips in this case study were less than 3 miles in duration, therefore active travel was able to create a significant impact on GHG emissions from personal travel. Active travel can replace 62% of short motorcycle trips if considering travel patterns and constraints while saving 18% of GHG emissions that would have come from motorized transport. If active travel can further replace all shopping trips normally done by motorcycles, in total being equivalent to 84% of short trips, 22% of GHG emissions from motorcycles can be reduced. It should be noticed that active travels have time cost implications, impacting economy at both household and city levels, but from a comprehensive "co-benefit" standpoint, this transformation could act as a catalyst for addressing traffic congestion, air pollution, and even community health and well-being in urban areas.
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- Yen Dan Tong
- School of Economics, Can Tho University, Can Tho, 94000 Vietnam
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- Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350 Australia
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- Can Tho Institute for Socio-Economic Development Studies, Can Tho, 900000 Vietnam
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- Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350 Australia
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Müürisepp K, Järv O, Sjöblom F, Toger M, Östh J. Segregation and the pandemic: The dynamics of daytime social diversity during COVID-19 in Greater Stockholm. Appl Geogr 2023; 154:102926. [PMID: 36999002 PMCID: PMC9998301 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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In this study, we set out to understand how the changes in daily mobility of people during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 influenced daytime spatial segregation. Rather than focusing on spatial separation, we approached this task from the perspective of daytime socio-spatial diversity - the degree to which people from socially different neighbourhoods share urban space during the day. By applying mobile phone data from Greater Stockholm, Sweden, the study examines weekly changes in 1) daytime social diversity across different types of neighbourhoods, and 2) population groups' exposure to diversity in their main daytime activity locations. Our findings show a decline in daytime diversity in neighbourhoods when the pandemic broke out in mid-March 2020. The decrease in diversity was marked in urban centres, and significantly different in neighbourhoods with different socio-economic and ethnic compositions. Moreover, the decrease in people's exposure to diversity in their daytime activity locations was even more profound and long-lasting. In particular, isolation from diversity increased more among residents of high-income majority neighbourhoods than of low-income minority neighbourhoods. We conclude that while some COVID-19-induced changes might have been temporary, the increased flexibility in where people work and live might ultimately reinforce both residential and daytime segregation.
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- Kerli Müürisepp
- Digital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Helsinki Inequality Initiative, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Digital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
- Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Chen K, Jiang X, Li Y, Zhou R. A stochastic agent-based model to evaluate COVID-19 transmission influenced by human mobility. Nonlinear Dyn 2023; 111:1-17. [PMID: 37361002 PMCID: PMC10148626 DOI: 10.1007/s11071-023-08489-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for mathematical models that can project epidemic trends and evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation strategies. A major challenge in forecasting the transmission of COVID-19 is the accurate assessment of the multiscale human mobility and how it impacts infection through close contacts. By combining the stochastic agent-based modeling strategy and hierarchical structures of spatial containers corresponding to the notion of geographical places, this study proposes a novel model, Mob-Cov, to study the impact of human traveling behavior and individual health conditions on the disease outbreak and the probability of zero-COVID in the population. Specifically, individuals perform power law-type local movements within a container and global transport between different-level containers. It is revealed that frequent long-distance movements inside a small-level container (e.g., a road or a county) and a small population size reduce both the local crowdedness and disease transmission. It takes only half of the time to induce global disease outbreaks when the population increases from 150 to 500 (normalized unit). When the exponent c 1 of the long-tail distribution of distance k moved in the same-level container, p ( k ) ∼ k - c 1 · level , increases, the outbreak time decreases rapidly from 75 to 25 (normalized unit). In contrast, travel between large-level containers (e.g., cities and nations) facilitates global spread of the disease and outbreak. When the mean traveling distance across containers 1 d increases from 0.5 to 1 (normalized unit), the outbreak occurs almost twice as fast. Moreover, dynamic infection and recovery in the population are able to drive the bifurcation of the system to a "zero-COVID" state or to a "live with COVID" state, depending on the mobility patterns, population number and health conditions. Reducing population size and restricting global travel help achieve zero-COVID-19. Specifically, when c 1 is smaller than 0.2, the ratio of people with low levels of mobility is larger than 80% and the population size is smaller than 400, zero-COVID can be achieved within fewer than 1000 time steps. In summary, the Mob-Cov model considers more realistic human mobility at a wide range of spatial scales, and has been designed with equal emphasis on performance, low simulation cost, accuracy, ease of use and flexibility. It is a useful tool for researchers and politicians to apply when investigating pandemic dynamics and when planning actions against disease. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11071-023-08489-5.
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- Kejie Chen
- School of Optoelectric Engineering and Instrumental Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024 China
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- Provincial Key Lab of Digital Twin for Industrial Equipment, Dalian, 116024 China
- School of Energy and Power Engineering, Dalian, 116024 China
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- School of Optoelectric Engineering and Instrumental Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024 China
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- School of Optoelectric Engineering and Instrumental Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024 China
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Ning H, Li Z, Qiao S, Zeng C, Zhang J, Olatosi B, Li X. Revealing geographic transmission pattern of COVID-19 using neighborhood-level simulation with human mobility data and SEIR model: A case study of South Carolina. Int J Appl Earth Obs Geoinf 2023; 118:103246. [PMID: 36908290 PMCID: PMC9985702 DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Direct human physical contact accelerates COVID-19 transmission. Smartphone mobility data has emerged as a valuable data source for revealing fine-grained human mobility, which can be used to estimate the intensity of physical contact surrounding different locations. Our study applied smartphone mobility data to simulate the second wave spreading of COVID-19 in January 2021 in three major metropolitan statistical areas (Columbia, Greenville, and Charleston) in South Carolina, United States. Based on the simulation, the number of historical county-level COVID-19 cases was allocated to neighborhoods (Census block groups) and points of interest (POIs), and the transmission rate of each allocated place was estimated. The result reveals that the COVID-19 infections during the study period mainly occurred in neighborhoods (86%), and the number is approximately proportional to the neighborhood's population. Restaurants and elementary and secondary schools contributed more COVID-19 infections than other POI categories. The simulation results for the coastal tourism Charleston area show high transmission rates in POIs related to travel and leisure activities. The results suggest that neighborhood-level infectious controlling measures are critical in reducing COVID-19 infections. We also found that households of lower socioeconomic status may be an umbrella against infection due to fewer visits to places such as malls and restaurants associated with their low financial status. Control measures should be tailored to different geographic locations since transmission rates and infection counts of POI categories vary among metropolitan areas.
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- Huan Ning
- Geoinformation and Big Data Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
- Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
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- Geoinformation and Big Data Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
- Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
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- Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
- Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
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- Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
- Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
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- Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
- Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
- Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
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Galiwango R, Bainomugisha E, Kivunike F, Kateete DP, Jjingo D. Air pollution and mobility patterns in two Ugandan cities during COVID-19 mobility restrictions suggest the validity of air quality data as a measure for human mobility. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:34856-34871. [PMID: 36520281 PMCID: PMC9751517 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-24605-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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We explored the viability of using air quality as an alternative to aggregated location data from mobile phones in the two most populated cities in Uganda. We accessed air quality and Google mobility data collected from 15th February 2020 to 10th June 2021 and augmented them with mobility restrictions implemented during the COVID-19 lockdown. We determined whether air quality data depicted similar patterns to mobility data before, during, and after the lockdown and determined associations between air quality and mobility by computing Pearson correlation coefficients ([Formula: see text]), conducting multivariable regression with associated confidence intervals (CIs), and visualized the relationships using scatter plots. Residential mobility increased with the stringency of restrictions while both non-residential mobility and air pollution decreased with the stringency of restrictions. In Kampala, PM2.5 was positively correlated with non-residential mobility and negatively correlated with residential mobility. Only correlations between PM2.5 and movement in work and residential places were statistically significant in Wakiso. After controlling for stringency in restrictions, air quality in Kampala was independently correlated with movement in retail and recreation (- 0.55; 95% CI = - 1.01- - 0.10), parks (0.29; 95% CI = 0.03-0.54), transit stations (0.29; 95% CI = 0.16-0.42), work (- 0.25; 95% CI = - 0.43- - 0.08), and residential places (- 1.02; 95% CI = - 1.4- - 0.64). For Wakiso, only the correlation between air quality and residential mobility was statistically significant (- 0.99; 95% CI = - 1.34- - 0.65). These findings suggest that air quality is linked to mobility and thus could be used by public health programs in monitoring movement patterns and the spread of infectious diseases without compromising on individuals' privacy.
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- Ronald Galiwango
- The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data Intensive Sciences, The Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
- Center for Computational Biology, Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda.
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- Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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- Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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- Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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- The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data Intensive Sciences, The Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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Iyer S, Karrer B, Citron DT, Kooti F, Maas P, Wang Z, Giraudy E, Medhat A, Dow PA, Pompe A. Large-scale measurement of aggregate human colocation patterns for epidemiological modeling. Epidemics 2023; 42:100663. [PMID: 36724622 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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To understand and model public health emergencies, epidemiologists need data that describes how humans are moving and interacting across physical space. Such data has traditionally been difficult for researchers to obtain with the temporal resolution and geographic breadth that is needed to study, for example, a global pandemic. This paper describes Colocation Maps, which are spatial network datasets that have been developed within Meta's Data For Good program. These Maps estimate how often people from different regions are colocated: in particular, for a pair of geographic regions x and y, these Maps estimate the rate at which a randomly chosen person from x and a randomly chosen person from y are simultaneously located in the same place during a randomly chosen minute in a given week. These datasets are well suited to parametrize metapopulation models of disease spread or to measure temporal changes in interactions between people from different regions; indeed, they have already been used for both of these purposes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we show how Colocation Maps differ from existing data sources, describe how the datasets are built, provide examples of their use in compartmental modeling, and summarize ideas for further development of these and related datasets. Among the findings of this study, we observe that a pair of regions can exhibit high colocation despite few people moving between those regions. Additionally, for the purposes of clarifying how to interpret and utilize Colocation Maps, we scrutinize the Maps' built-in assumptions about representativeness and contact heterogeneity.
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- Shankar Iyer
- Meta, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States.
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- Meta, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
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- Meta, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
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- Meta, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
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- Department of Economics, Stanford University, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
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- Meta, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
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- Meta, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
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- Meta, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
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Yücel SG, Pereira RHM, Peixoto PS, Camargo CQ. Impact of network centrality and income on slowing infection spread after outbreaks. Appl Netw Sci 2023; 8:16. [PMID: 36855413 PMCID: PMC9951146 DOI: 10.1007/s41109-023-00540-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on how the spread of infectious diseases worldwide are importantly shaped by both human mobility networks and socio-economic factors. However, few studies look at how both socio-economic conditions and the complex network properties of human mobility patterns interact, and how they influence outbreaks together. We introduce a novel methodology, called the Infection Delay Model, to calculate how the arrival time of an infection varies geographically, considering both effective distance-based metrics and differences in regions' capacity to isolate-a feature associated with socio-economic inequalities. To illustrate an application of the Infection Delay Model, this paper integrates household travel survey data with cell phone mobility data from the São Paulo metropolitan region to assess the effectiveness of lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19. Rather than operating under the assumption that the next pandemic will begin in the same region as the last, the model estimates infection delays under every possible outbreak scenario, allowing for generalizable insights into the effectiveness of interventions to delay a region's first case. The model sheds light on how the effectiveness of lockdowns to slow the spread of disease is influenced by the interaction of mobility networks and socio-economic levels. We find that a negative relationship emerges between network centrality and the infection delay after a lockdown, irrespective of income. Furthermore, for regions across all income and centrality levels, outbreaks starting in less central locations were more effectively slowed by a lockdown. Using the Infection Delay Model, this paper identifies and quantifies a new dimension of disease risk faced by those most central in a mobility network.
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- Shiv G. Yücel
- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Applied Mathematics Department, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Liu Y, Wang X, Song C, Chen J, Shu H, Wu M, Guo S, Huang Q, Pei T. Quantifying human mobility resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Beijing, China. Sustain Cities Soc 2023; 89:104314. [PMID: 36438675 PMCID: PMC9676079 DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2022.104314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Human mobility, as a fundamental requirement of everyday life, has been most directly impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing studies have revealed its ensuing changes. However, its resilience, which is defined as people's ability to resist such impact and maintain their normal mobility, still remains unclear. Such resilience reveals people's response capabilities to the pandemic and quantifying it can help us better understand the interplay between them. Herein, we introduced an integrated framework to quantify the resilience of human mobility to COVID-19 based on its change process. Taking Beijing as a case study, the resilience of different mobility characteristics among different population groups, and under different waves of COVID-19, were compared. Overall, the mobility range and diversity were found to be less resilient than decisions on whether to move. Females consistently exhibited lower resilience than males; middle-aged people exhibited the lowest resilience under the first wave of COVID-19 while older adult's resilience became the lowest during the COVID-19 rebound. With the refinement of pandemic-control measures, human mobility resilience was enhanced. These findings reveal heterogeneities and variations in people's response capabilities to the pandemic, which can help formulate targeted and flexible policies, and thereby promote sustainable and resilient urban management.
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- Yaxi Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China
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Crawford ND, Harrington KRV, Romm KF, Berg CJ. Examining Multilevel Correlates of Geographic Mobility in a Sample of US Young Adults Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Community Health 2023; 48:166-172. [PMID: 36334216 PMCID: PMC9638465 DOI: 10.1007/s10900-022-01146-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, geographic mobility, previously viewed as an indicator of economic stability, was declining among young adults. Yet, these trends shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic; young adults were more likely to move during COVID-19 for reasons related to reducing disease transmission and fewer educational and job opportunities. Few studies have documented the individual and neighborhood characteristics of young adults who moved before and during the pandemic. We used data from a cohort of young adults aged 18-34 in six metropolitan areas to examine individual- and neighborhood-level predictors of mobility before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample was majority female, white, and educated with a bachelor's degree or more. Residents in neighborhoods they lived in were mostly White, US-born, employed, and lived above the poverty level. Before the pandemic, identifying as a sexual minority was significantly related to mobility. During the pandemic, being younger, single, and non-Hispanic were significantly related to mobility. Higher neighborhood poverty was significantly related to mobility before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future studies that examine young adult populations who moved during the pandemic are needed to determine whether COVID-19 related moves increase economic instability and subsequent health-related outcomes.
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- Natalie D Crawford
- Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
- GW Cancer Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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It is often believed that regularities are embedded in mobile behaviors. Highly regular mobile behaviors, such as daily commutes between home and workplace, have been actively investigated in the context of health risks. Less regular mobile behaviors, such as visits to service places (e.g., supermarkets and healthcare facilities), have not received much attention. This study explores the regularity in service place visits using a deep learning method and the effect of place type on the stability of recurring visits using an entropy assessment. Results reveal both periodic and bursty visit behaviors to service places. The periodic visits are prominent on the weekly and bi-weekly scales, and the bursty visits dominate the multi-day scales. Service place type indeed affects the stability of recurring visits, and certain place types have the strongest effect. The research findings substantially expand the knowledge of mobile behaviors and are valuable in informing both visitor-based and place-based health risks.
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- Shiran Zhong
- Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, 105 Wilkeson Quad, Buffalo, NY 14261, USA
- Human Environments Analysis Lab, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada
- Department of Geography & Environment, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, 105 Wilkeson Quad, Buffalo, NY 14261, USA
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Liu X, Yang S, Huang X, An R, Xiong Q, Ye T. Quantifying COVID-19 recovery process from a human mobility perspective: An intra-city study in Wuhan. Cities 2023; 132:104104. [PMID: 36407935 PMCID: PMC9659556 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.104104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought huge challenges to sustainable urban and community development. Although some recovery signals and patterns have been uncovered, the intra-city recovery process remains underexploited. This study proposes a comprehensive approach to quantify COVID-19 recovery leveraging fine-grained human mobility records. Taking Wuhan, a typical COVID-19 affected megacity in China, as the study area, we identify accurate recovery phases and select appropriate recovery functions in a data-driven manner. We observe that recovery characteristics regarding duration, amplitude, and velocity exhibit notable differences among urban blocks. We also notice that the recovery process under a one-wave outbreak lasts at least 84 days and has an S-shaped form best fitted with four-parameter Logistic functions. More than half of the recovery variance can be well explained and estimated by common variables from auxiliary data, including population, economic level, and built environments. Our study serves as a valuable reference that supports data-driven recovery quantification for COVID-19 and other crises.
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- Xiaoyan Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disasters, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management and Ministry of Education, Beijing 100875, China
- Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- School of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72762, USA
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- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disasters, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management and Ministry of Education, Beijing 100875, China
- Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Mauro G, Luca M, Longa A, Lepri B, Pappalardo L. Generating mobility networks with generative adversarial networks. EPJ Data Sci 2022; 11:58. [PMID: 36530793 PMCID: PMC9734834 DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00372-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The increasingly crucial role of human displacements in complex societal phenomena, such as traffic congestion, segregation, and the diffusion of epidemics, is attracting the interest of scientists from several disciplines. In this article, we address mobility network generation, i.e., generating a city's entire mobility network, a weighted directed graph in which nodes are geographic locations and weighted edges represent people's movements between those locations, thus describing the entire mobility set flows within a city. Our solution is MoGAN, a model based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate realistic mobility networks. We conduct extensive experiments on public datasets of bike and taxi rides to show that MoGAN outperforms the classical Gravity and Radiation models regarding the realism of the generated networks. Our model can be used for data augmentation and performing simulations and what-if analysis.
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- Giovanni Mauro
- Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy
- IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
- University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
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- University of Trento, Trento, Italy
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
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- Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy
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Das AM, Hetzel MW, Yukich JO, Stuck L, Fakih BS, Al-mafazy AWH, Ali A, Chitnis N. The impact of reactive case detection on malaria transmission in Zanzibar in the presence of human mobility. Epidemics 2022; 41:100639. [PMID: 36343496 PMCID: PMC9758615 DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Malaria persists at low levels on Zanzibar despite the use of vector control and case management. We use a metapopulation model to investigate the role of human mobility in malaria persistence on Zanzibar, and the impact of reactive case detection. The model was parameterized using survey data on malaria prevalence, reactive case detection, and travel history. We find that in the absence of imported cases from mainland Tanzania, malaria would likely cease to persist on Zanzibar. We also investigate potential intervention scenarios that may lead to elimination, especially through changes to reactive case detection. While we find that some additional cases are removed by reactive case detection, a large proportion of cases are missed due to many infections having a low parasite density that go undetected by rapid diagnostic tests, a low rate of those infected with malaria seeking treatment, and a low rate of follow up at the household level of malaria cases detected at health facilities. While improvements in reactive case detection would lead to a reduction in malaria prevalence, none of the intervention scenarios tested here were sufficient to reach elimination. Imported cases need to be treated to have a substantial impact on prevalence.
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- Aatreyee M. Das
- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland,Corresponding author at: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Center for Applied Malaria Research and Evaluation, Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Center for Applied Malaria Research and Evaluation, Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland,Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
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- Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania
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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Haileselassie W, Getnet A, Solomon H, Deressa W, Yan G, Parker DM. Mobile phone handover data for measuring and analysing human population mobility in Western Ethiopia: implication for malaria disease epidemiology and elimination efforts. Malar J 2022; 21:323. [PMID: 36369036 PMCID: PMC9652832 DOI: 10.1186/s12936-022-04337-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Human mobility behaviour modelling plays an essential role in the understanding and control of the spread of contagious diseases by limiting the contact among individuals, predicting the spatio-temporal evolution of an epidemic and inferring migration patterns. It informs programmatic and policy decisions for effective and efficient intervention. The objective of this research is to assess the human mobility pattern and analyse its implication for malaria disease epidemiology. METHODS In this study, human mobility patterns in Benishangul-Gumuz and Gambella regions in Western Ethiopia were explored based on a cellular network mobility parameter (e.g., handover rate) via real world data. Anonymized data were retrieved for mobile active users with mobility related information. The data came from anonymous traffic records collected from all the study areas. For each cell, the necessary mobility parameter data per hour, week and month were collected. A scale factor was computed to change the mobility parameter value to the human mobility pattern. Finally, the relative human mobility probability for each scenario was estimated. MapInfo and Matlab softwares were used for visualization and analysis purposes. Hourly travel patterns in the study settings were compared with hourly malaria mosquito vector feeding behaviour. RESULTS Heterogeneous human movement patterns were observed in the two regions with some areas showing typically high human mobility. Furthermore, the number of people entering into the two study regions was high during the highest malaria transmission season. Two peaks of hourly human movement, 8:00 to 9:00 and 16:00 to 18:00, emerged in Benishangul-Gumuz region while 8:00 to 10:00 and 16:00 to 18:00 were the peak hourly human mobility time periods in Gambella region. The high human movement in the night especially before midnight in the two regions may increase the risk of getting mosquito bite particularly by early biters depending on malaria linked human behaviour of the population. CONCLUSIONS High human mobility was observed both within and outside the two regions. The population influx and efflux in these two regions is considerably high. This may specifically challenge the transition from malaria control to elimination. The daily mobility pattern is worth considering in the context of malaria transmission. In line with this malaria related behavioural patterns of humans need to be properly addressed.
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- Werissaw Haileselassie
- grid.7123.70000 0001 1250 5688School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- grid.7123.70000 0001 1250 5688Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- grid.414835.f0000 0004 0439 6364Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- grid.7123.70000 0001 1250 5688School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- grid.266093.80000 0001 0668 7243Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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- grid.266093.80000 0001 0668 7243Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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Kuo FY, Wen TH. Assessing the spatial variability of raising public risk awareness for the intervention performance of COVID-19 voluntary screening: A spatial simulation approach. Appl Geogr 2022; 148:102804. [PMID: 36267149 PMCID: PMC9567310 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The rapid spread of a (re)emerging pandemic (e.g., COVID-19) is usually attributed to the invisible transmission caused by asymptomatic cases. Health authorities rely on large-scale voluntary screening to identify and isolate invisible spreaders as well as symptomatic people as early as possible to control disease spread. Raising public awareness is beneficial for improving the effectiveness of epidemic prevention because it could increase the usage and demand for testing kits. However, the effectiveness of testing could be influenced by the spatial demand for medical resources in different periods. Spatial demand could also be triggered by public awareness in areas with two geographical factors, including spatial proximity to resources and attractiveness of human mobility. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the spatial variations in raising public awareness on the effectiveness of COVID-19 screening. We implemented spatial simulation models to integrate various levels of public awareness and pandemic dynamics in time and space. Moreover, we also assessed the effects of the spatial proximity of testing kits and the ease of human mobility on COVID-19 testing at various levels of public awareness. Our results indicated that high public awareness promotes high willingness to be tested. This causes the demand to not be fully satisfied at the peak times during a pandemic, yet the shortage of tests does not significantly increase pandemic severity. We also found that when public awareness is low, concentrating on unattractive areas (such as residential or urban fringe areas) could promote a higher benefit of testing. On the other hand, when awareness is high, the factor of distances to testing stations is more important for promoting the benefit of testing; allocating additional testing resources in areas distant from stations could have a higher benefit of testing. This study aims to provide insights for health authorities into the allocation of testing resources against disease outbreaks with respect to various levels of public awareness.
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- Fei-Ying Kuo
- Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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- Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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Anzai T, Kikuchi K, Fukui K, Ito Y, Takahashi K. Have restrictions on human mobility impacted suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan? Psychiatry Res 2022; 317:114898. [PMID: 36265193 PMCID: PMC9548340 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 10/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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During the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, various measures have been implemented to prevent the spread of infection, including restrictions on human mobility. A dynamic fluctuation in the number of suicides has been observed during this period. The question is whether the increase/decrease in suicides during the pandemic is related to changes in human mobility. To answer the same, we estimated incidence rate ratios (IRR) of suicide for changes in human mobility using the relative number of suicides by month from March 2020 to September 2021, based on the same months in 2019 as reference. The IRR of suicide during the pandemic were significantly lower in the months when mobility decreased-in both the previous and current month-than in the months when mobility was stable; the IRR of suicide were statistically higher in the months with increased mobility compared with the stable months. The burden from a decrease in one's mobility, which might lead to an increase in suicide, may not occur immediately, as seen in the delayed effects of unemployment. It may be important to investigate people's mental health and stress levels after pandemic restrictions were relaxed. The findings may help practitioners and families consider the timing of intervention.
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- Tatsuhiko Anzai
- Department of Biostatistics, M&D Data Science Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, M&D Data Science Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan; Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital, 1-26-1 Kyonan-cho, Musashino, Tokyo 180-8610, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, HigashiHiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan
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- Department of Medical Statistics, Research & Development Center, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2-7 Daigaku-machi, Takatsuki City, Osaka 569-8686, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, M&D Data Science Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan.
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Sarwar Uddin MY, Rafiq R. Characterizing pandemic waves: A latent class analysis of COVID-19 spread across US counties. Pattern Recognit Lett 2022; 162:31-9. [PMID: 36060216 DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2022.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is observed to follow the shape of "waves" (i.e., the rise and fall of population-adjusted daily new infection cases with time). Different geographic regions of the world have experienced different position and span of these waves over time. The presence and strength of these waves broadly characterize the dynamics of the pandemic spread in a given area, so their characterization is important to draw meaningful intervention and mitigation plans tailored for that area. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to represent the trend of COVID-19 spread as a sequence of a fixed-length text string defined on three symbols: R (rise), S (Steady), and F (fall). These strings, termed as trend strings, enabled us searching for specific patterns in them (such as for waves). After analyzing county-level infection data, we observe that, US counties-despite their wide variation in trend strings-can be grouped into a number of heterogeneous classes each of which might have a representative COVID spread pattern over time (in terms of presence and propensity of waves). To this end, we conduct a latent class analysis to cluster 3142 US counties into four distinct classes based on their wave characteristics for one year pandemic data (January 2020 to January 2021). We observe that counties in each class have distinct socio-demographics, location, and human mobility characteristics. In short summary, counties have differing number of waves (class 1 counties have only one wave and class 3 counties have three) and their positions also vary (class 1 had the wave later in the year whereas class 3 had waves throughout the year). We believe that this way of characterizing pandemic waves would provide better insights in understanding the complex dynamics of COVID-19 spread and its future evolution, and would, therefore, help in taking class-specific policy interventions.
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Sartori L, Pereira M, Oliva S. Time-Scale Analysis and Parameter Fitting for Vector-Borne Diseases with Spatial Dynamics. Bull Math Biol 2022; 84:124. [PMID: 36121515 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-022-01083-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Vector-borne diseases are progressively spreading in a growing number of countries, and it has the potential to invade new areas and habitats. From the dynamical perspective, the spatial-temporal interaction of models that try to adjust to such events is rich and challenging. The first challenge is to address the dynamics of vectors (very fast and local) and the dynamics of humans (very heterogeneous and non-local). The objective of this work is to use the well-known Ross-Macdonald models, identifying different time scales, incorporating human spatial movements and estimate in a suitable way the parameters. We will concentrate on a practical example, a simplified space model, and apply it to dengue spread in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Nagata S, Nakaya T, Hanibuchi T, Nakaya N, Hozawa A. Development of a method for walking step observation based on large-scale GPS data. Int J Health Geogr 2022; 21:10. [PMID: 36071501 PMCID: PMC9449285 DOI: 10.1186/s12942-022-00312-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Widespread use of smartphones has enabled the continuous monitoring of people’s movements and physical activity. Linking global positioning systems (GPS) data obtained via smartphone applications to physical activity data may allow for large-scale and retrospective evaluation of where and how much physical activity has increased or decreased due to environmental, social, or individual changes caused by policy interventions, disasters, and infectious disease outbreaks. However, little attention has been paid to the use of large-scale commercial GPS data for physical activity research due to limitations in data specifications, including limited personal attribute and physical activity information. Using GPS logs with step counts measured by a smartphone application, we developed a simple method for daily walking step estimation based on large-scale GPS data. Methods The samples of this study were users whose GPS logs were obtained in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, during October 2019 (37,460 users, 36,059,000 logs), and some logs included information on daily step counts (731 users, 450,307 logs). The relationship between land use exposure and daily step counts in the activity space was modeled using the small-scale GPS logs with daily step counts. Furthermore, we visualized the geographic distribution of estimated step counts using a large set of GPS logs with no step count information. Results The estimated model showed positive relationships between visiting high-rise buildings, parks and public spaces, and railway areas and step counts, and negative relationships between low-rise buildings and factory areas and daily step counts. The estimated daily step counts tended to be higher in urban areas than in suburban areas. Decreased step counts were mitigated in areas close to train stations. In addition, a clear temporal drop in step counts was observed in the suburbs during heavy rainfall. Conclusions The relationship between land use exposure and step counts observed in this study was consistent with previous findings, suggesting that the assessment of walking steps based on large-scale GPS logs is feasible. The methodology of this study can contribute to future policy interventions and public health measures by enabling the retrospective and large-scale observation of physical activity by walking.
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- Shohei Nagata
- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-0845, Japan
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- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-0845, Japan. .,Department of Traffic and Medical Informatics in Disaster (Endowed Research Division), Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-0845, Japan
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- Department of Traffic and Medical Informatics in Disaster (Endowed Research Division), Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan
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- Department of Traffic and Medical Informatics in Disaster (Endowed Research Division), Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan
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Okamoto S. State of emergency and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. J Transp Health 2022; 26:101405. [PMID: 35694018 PMCID: PMC9167861 DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2022.101405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Introduction The Japanese government declared a state of emergency (SoE) to control the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). However, the requirements of these SoE were less stringent than those in other nations. It has not been assessed whether soft containment policies were sufficiently effective in the promotion of social distancing or the reduction of human contact. Methods Mobility changes across different travel destinations, such as, (a) retail and recreation spaces; (b) supermarkets and pharmacies; (c) parks; (d) public transportation; (e) workplaces; and (f) residential areas, were analysed using the Google mobility index to assess social distancing behaviour in all Japanese prefectures between 15 February 2020 and 21 September 2021. The changes were evaluated through the utilisation of an interrupted time-series analysis after adjustment for seasonality and various prefecture-specific fixed-effects, and distinguishment of potential heterogeneity across multiple SoEs and the time that had passed after the declaration. Results The mobility index for retail and recreation exhibited an immediate decline of 7.94 percent-points (95%CI: -8.77 to -7.12) after the declaration of the SoE, and a further decline after the initial period (beta: -1.27 95%CI: -1.43 to -1.11). However, it gradually increased by 0.03 percent-points (95%CI: 0.02-0.03). This trend was similar for mobility in other places. Among the four SoEs, the overall decline in human mobility outside the home was the least significant in the third and fourth SoE, which suggests that people were less compliant with social distancing measures during these periods. Conclusions Although government responses to the pandemic may aid the controlling of human mobility outside the home, their effectiveness may decrease if these interventions are repeated and enforced for extended periods. A combination of these with other measures (i.e. risk-communication strategies) would enable even mild containment and closure policies to effectively curb the spread of the virus.
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- Shohei Okamoto
- Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan
- Institute for Global Health Policy Research, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Research Center for Financial Gerontology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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Olsen JR, Nicholls N, Caryl F, Mendoza JO, Panis LI, Dons E, Laeremans M, Standaert A, Lee D, Avila-Palencia I, de Nazelle A, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Mitchell R. Day-to-day intrapersonal variability in mobility patterns and association with perceived stress: A cross-sectional study using GPS from 122 individuals in three European cities. SSM Popul Health 2022; 19:101172. [PMID: 35865800 PMCID: PMC9294330 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Revised: 07/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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Many aspects of our life are related to our mobility patterns and individuals can exhibit strong tendencies towards routine in their daily lives. Intrapersonal day-to-day variability in mobility patterns has been associated with mental health outcomes. The study aims were: (a) calculate intrapersonal day-to-day variability in mobility metrics for three cities; (b) explore interpersonal variability in mobility metrics by sex, season and city, and (c) describe intrapersonal variability in mobility and their association with perceived stress. Data came from the Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches (PASTA) project, 122 eligible adults wore location measurement devices over 7-consecutive days, on three occasions during 2015 (Antwerp: 41, Barcelona: 41, London: 40). Participants completed the Short Form Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4). Day-to-day variability in mobility was explored via six mobility metrics using distance of GPS point from home (meters:m), distance travelled between consecutive GPS points (m) and energy expenditure (metabolic equivalents:METs) of each GPS point collected (n = 3,372,919). A Kruskal-Wallis H test determined whether the median daily mobility metrics differed by city, sex and season. Variance in correlation quantified day-to-day intrapersonal variability in mobility. Levene's tests or Kruskal-Wallis tests were applied to assess intrapersonal variability in mobility and perceived stress. There were differences in daily distance travelled, maximum distance from home and METS between individuals by sex, season and, for proportion of time at home also, by city. Intrapersonal variability across all mobility metrics were highly correlated; individuals had daily routines and largely stuck to them. We did not observe any association between stress and mobility. Individuals are habitual in their daily mobility patterns. This is useful for estimating environmental exposures and in fuelling simulation studies.
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- Jonathan R Olsen
- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK), Hasselt, Belgium.,Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK), Hasselt, Belgium.,Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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- Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.,MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.,Universität Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Chen Y, Sun X, Deveci M, Coffman D. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the behaviour of bike sharing users. Sustain Cities Soc 2022; 84:104003. [PMID: 35756367 PMCID: PMC9212929 DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2022.104003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Revised: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Globally most governments implemented a 'Working from Home' (home office) strategy to contain the spread of the coronavirus in 2020 in order to ensure public safety and minimize the transmission of the virus. Unsurprisingly studies have found that COVID-19 has had a detrimental impact on urban transportation systems; however, the number of shared bicycle riders is progressively growing compared to other modes of public transit. The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of COVID-19 on the usage of shared bicycle systems in order to identify passenger travel patterns and habits. In addition, bicycle rentals are becoming more popular in some locations. This demonstrates that bike sharing as a transport option has a high level of social adaptability and is progressively being adopted by the general population in a fashion that promotes the resilience of transport systems.
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- Yan Chen
- The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK
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- The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK
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- The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK
- Department of Industrial Engineering, Turkish Naval Academy, National Defence University, 34940 Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey
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- The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK
- School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, No. o. 59, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing
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Zhong L, Zhou Y, Gao S, Yu Z, Ma Z, Li X, Yue Y, Xia J. COVID-19 lockdown introduces human mobility pattern changes for both Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao greater bay area and the San Francisco bay area. Int J Appl Earth Obs Geoinf 2022; 112:102848. [PMID: 35757462 PMCID: PMC9212878 DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.102848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 04/15/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, various countries have sought to control COVID-19 transmission by introducing non-pharmaceutical interventions. Restricting population mobility, by introducing social distancing, is one of the most widely used non-pharmaceutical interventions. Although similar population mobility restriction interventions were introduced, their impacts on COVID-19 transmission are often inconsistent across different regions and different time periods. These differences may provide critical information for tailoring COVID-19 control strategies. In this paper, anonymized high spatiotemporal resolution mobile-phone location data were employed to empirically analyze and quantify the impact of lockdowns on population mobility. Both the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) in China and the San Francisco Bay Area (SBA) in the United States were studied. In response to the lockdowns, a general reduction in population mobility was observed, but the structural changes in mobility are very different between the two bays: 1) GBA mobility decreased by approximately 74.0-80.1% while the decrease of SBA was about 25.0-42.1%; 2) compared to SBA, the GBA had smoother volatility in daily volume during the lockdown. The volatility change indexes for GBA and SBA were 2.55% and 7.52%, respectively; 3) the effect of lockdown on short- to long-distance mobility was similar in GBA while the medium- and long-distance impact was more pronounced in SBA.
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- Leiyang Zhong
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics, and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Service, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- College of Public Health, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Geospatial Data Science Lab, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics, and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Service, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics, and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Service, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics, and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Service, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics, and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Service, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics, and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Service, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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Wu L, Shimizu T. Analysis of the impact of non-compulsory measures on human mobility in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cities 2022; 127:103751. [PMID: 35601133 PMCID: PMC9114008 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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To curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world have imposed restrictions on their population. This study quantitatively assessed the impact of non-compulsory measures on human mobility in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the analysis of large-scale anonymized mobile-phone data. The non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) method was used to analyze mobile statistics data from the Tokyo area. The results confirmed the suitability of the NMF method for extracting behavior patterns from aggregated mobile statistics data. Data analysis results indicated that although non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) measures adopted by the Japanese government are non-compulsory and rely largely on requests for voluntary self-restriction, they are effective in reducing population mobility and motivating people to practice social distancing. In addition, the current study compared the mobility change in three cities (i.e., Tokyo, Osaka, and Hiroshima), and discussed their similarity and difference in behavior pattern changes during the pandemic. It is expected that the analytical tool proposed in this study can be used to monitor mobility changes in real-time during the pandemic, as well as the long-term evolution of population mobility patterns in the post-pandemic phase.
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- Lingling Wu
- Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
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- Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
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Crivellari A, Resch B. Investigating functional consistency of mobility-related urban zones via motion-driven embedding vectors and local POI-type distributions. Comput Urban Sci 2022; 2:19. [PMID: 35783355 DOI: 10.1007/s43762-022-00049-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Urban morphology and human mobility are two sides of the complex mixture of elements that implicitly define urban functionality. By leveraging the emerging availability of crowdsourced data, we aim for novel insights on how they relate to each other, which remains a substantial scientific challenge. Specifically, our study focuses on extracting spatial-temporal information from taxi trips in an attempt on grouping urban space based on human mobility, and subsequently assess its potential relationship with urban functional characteristics in terms of local points-of-interest (POI) distribution. Proposing a vector representation of urban areas, constructed via unsupervised machine learning on trip data’s temporal and geographic factors, the underlying idea is to define areas as “related” if they often act as destinations of similar departing regions at similar points in time, regardless of any other explicit information. Hidden relations are mapped within the generated vector space, whereby areas are represented as points and stronger/weaker relatedness is conveyed through relative distances. The mobility-related outcome is then compared with the POI-type distribution across the urban environment, to assess the functional consistency of mobility-based clusters of urban areas. Results indicate a meaningful relationship between spatial-temporal motion patterns and urban distributions of a diverse selection of POI-type categorizations, paving the way to ideally identify homogenous urban functional zones only based on the movement of people. Our data-driven approach is intended to complement traditional urban development studies on providing a novel perspective to urban activity modeling, standing out as a reference for mining information out of mobility and POI data types in the context of urban management and planning.
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Li Y, Zeng Y, Liu G, Lu D, Yang H, Ying Z, Hu Y, Qiu J, Zhang C, Fall K, Fang F, Valdimarsdóttir UA, Zhang W, Song H. Public awareness, emotional reactions and human mobility in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China - a population-based ecological study. Psychol Med 2022; 52:1793-1800. [PMID: 32972473 PMCID: PMC7542325 DOI: 10.1017/s003329172000375x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2020] [Revised: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND The outbreak of COVID-19 generated severe emotional reactions, and restricted mobility was a crucial measure to reduce the spread of the virus. This study describes the changes in public emotional reactions and mobility patterns in the Chinese population during the COVID-19 outbreak. METHODS We collected data on public emotional reactions in response to the outbreak through Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, between 1st January and 31st March 2020. Using anonymized location-tracking information, we analyzed the daily mobility patterns of approximately 90% of Sichuan residents. RESULTS There were three distinct phases of the emotional and behavioral reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak. The alarm phase (19th-26th January) was a restriction-free period, characterized by few new daily cases, but a large amount public negative emotions [the number of negative comments per Weibo post increased by 246.9 per day, 95% confidence interval (CI) 122.5-371.3], and a substantial increase in self-limiting mobility (from 45.6% to 54.5%, changing by 1.5% per day, 95% CI 0.7%-2.3%). The epidemic phase (27th January-15th February) exhibited rapidly increasing numbers of new daily cases, decreasing expression of negative emotions (a decrease of 27.3 negative comments per post per day, 95% CI -40.4 to -14.2), and a stabilized level of self-limiting mobility. The relief phase (16th February-31st March) had a steady decline in new daily cases and decreasing levels of negative emotion and self-limiting mobility. CONCLUSIONS During the COVID-19 outbreak in China, the public's emotional reaction was strongest before the actual peak of the outbreak and declined thereafter. The change in human mobility patterns occurred before the implementation of restriction orders, suggesting a possible link between emotion and behavior.
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- Yuchen Li
- West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Chinese Evidence-based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Library of Chengdu University, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Clinical Research Center for Breast Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistic, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Center of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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- West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Center of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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Grimée M, Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar M, Hofmann F, Held L. Modelling the effect of a border closure between Switzerland and Italy on the spatiotemporal spread of COVID-19 in Switzerland. Spat Stat 2022; 49:100552. [PMID: 34786328 PMCID: PMC8579705 DOI: 10.1016/j.spasta.2021.100552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We present an approach to extend the endemic-epidemic (EE) modelling framework for the analysis of infectious disease data. In its spatiotemporal formulation, spatial dependencies have originally been captured by static neighbourhood matrices. These weight matrices are adjusted over time to reflect changes in spatial connectivity between geographical units. We illustrate this extension by modelling the spread of COVID-19 disease between Swiss and bordering Italian regions in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spatial weights are adjusted with data describing the daily changes in population mobility patterns, and indicators of border closures describing the state of travel restrictions since the beginning of the pandemic. These time-dependent weights are used to fit an EE model to the region-stratified time series of new COVID-19 cases. We then adjust the weight matrices to reflect two counterfactual scenarios of border closures and draw counterfactual predictions based on these, to retrospectively assess the usefulness of border closures. Predictions based on a scenario where no closure of the Swiss-Italian border occurred increased the number of cumulative cases in Switzerland by a factor of 2.7 (10th to 90th percentile: 2.2 to 3.6) over the study period. Conversely, a closure of the Swiss-Italian border two weeks earlier than implemented would have resulted in only a 12% (8% to 18%) decrease in the number of cases and merely delayed the epidemic spread by a couple of weeks. Our study provides useful insight into modelling the effect of epidemic countermeasures on the spatiotemporal spread of COVID-19.
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- Mathilde Grimée
- Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss School of Public Health, Switzerland
- Life Science Zurich Graduate School, Switzerland
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss School of Public Health, Switzerland
- Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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David JF, Iyaniwura SA. Effect of Human Mobility on the Spatial Spread of Airborne Diseases: An Epidemic Model with Indirect Transmission. Bull Math Biol 2022; 84:63. [PMID: 35507091 PMCID: PMC9066407 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-022-01020-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We extended a class of coupled PDE-ODE models for studying the spatial spread of airborne diseases by incorporating human mobility. Human populations are modeled with patches, and a Lagrangian perspective is used to keep track of individuals' places of residence. The movement of pathogens in the air is modeled with linear diffusion and coupled to the SIR dynamics of each human population through an integral of the density of pathogens around the population patches. In the limit of fast diffusion pathogens, the method of matched asymptotic analysis is used to reduce the coupled PDE-ODE model to a nonlinear system of ODEs for the average density of pathogens in the air. The reduced system of ODEs is used to derive the basic reproduction number and the final size relation for the model. Numerical simulations of the full PDE-ODE model and the reduced system of ODEs are used to assess the impact of human mobility, together with the diffusion of pathogens on the dynamics of the disease. Results from the two models are consistent and show that human mobility significantly affects disease dynamics. In addition, we show that an increase in the diffusion rate of pathogen leads to a lower epidemic.
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- Jummy F David
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- Fields-CQAM Laboratory of Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH), York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Department of Mathematics and Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Reyna-Lara A, Soriano-Paños D, Arenas A, Gómez-Gardeñes J. The interconnection between independent reactive control policies drives the stringency of local containment. Chaos Solitons Fractals 2022; 158:112012. [PMID: 35370369 PMCID: PMC8956273 DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The lack of medical treatments and vaccines upon the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has made non-pharmaceutical interventions the best allies in safeguarding human lives in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we propose a self-organized epidemic model with multi-scale control policies that are relaxed or strengthened depending on the extent of the epidemic outbreak. We show that optimizing the balance between the effects of epidemic control and the associated socio-economic cost is strongly linked to the stringency of control measures. We also show that non-pharmaceutical interventions acting at different spatial scales, from creating social bubbles at the household level to constraining mobility between different cities, are strongly interrelated. We find that policy functionality changes for better or worse depending on network connectivity, meaning that some populations may allow for less restrictive measures than others if both have the same resources to respond to the evolving epidemic.
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- Adriana Reyna-Lara
- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- GOTHAM Lab-Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, E-50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- GOTHAM Lab-Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, E-50018 Zaragoza, Spain
- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Departament d'Enginyeria Informática i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- GOTHAM Lab-Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, E-50018 Zaragoza, Spain
- Center for Computational Social Science (CCSS), Kobe University, 657-8501 Kobe, Japan
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Liu S, Yamamoto T. Role of stay-at-home requests and travel restrictions in preventing the spread of COVID-19 in Japan. Transp Res Part A Policy Pract 2022; 159:1-16. [PMID: 35309690 PMCID: PMC8920346 DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2022.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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COVID-19 is one of the worst global health crises in a century. Japan confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in mid-January and declared a state of emergency in April and May 2020, urging people to stay at home and reduce travel. Using Mobile Spatial Statistics (i.e., population statistics created from operational data of mobile terminal networks), we estimated daily intra- and inter-prefectural population mobility in the Tokyo Megalopolis Region, Japan in 2020. Then, we developed a compartmental model with population mobility to explore the role of stay-at-home requests and travel restrictions in preventing the spread of COVID-19. This model describes the COVID-19 pandemic through a susceptible-exposed-presymptomatic infectious-undocumented and documented infectious-removed (SEPIR) process and incorporates intra- and inter-prefectural population mobility into the transmission process. We found that people significantly reduced travel during the state of emergency, although stay-at-home requests and travel restrictions were recommended rather than mandatory. The reduction in population mobility, combined with other control measures, resulted in a substantial reduction in effective reproduction numbers to below 1, thus controlling the first wave of the pandemic. Moreover, the relationship between population mobility and COVID-19 transmission changed over time. The dampening of the second wave of the pandemic indicated that smaller reductions in population mobility could result in pandemic control, probably because of other social distancing behaviors. Our proposed model can be used to analyze the impact of different public health interventions, and our findings shed light on the effectiveness of soft containments in curbing the spread of COVID-19.
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- Shasha Liu
- Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University, Nagoya 4648603, Japan
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- Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University, Nagoya 4648603, Japan
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Zhu P, Tan X. Evaluating the effectiveness of Hong Kong's border restriction policy in reducing COVID-19 infections. BMC Public Health 2022; 22:803. [PMID: 35449094 PMCID: PMC9023047 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13234-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study evaluates the effectiveness of Hong Kong’s strict border restrictions with mainland China in curbing the transmission of COVID-19. Combining big data from Baidu Population Migration with traditional meteorological data and census data for over 200 Chinese cities, we utilize an advanced quantitative approach, namely synthetic control modeling, to produce a counterfactual “synthetic Hong Kong” without a strict border restriction policy. We then simulate infection trends under the hypothetical scenarios and compare them to actual infection numbers. Our counterfactual synthetic control model demonstrates a lower number of COVID-19 infections than the actual scenario, where strict border restrictions with mainland China were implemented from February 8 to March 6, 2020. Moreover, the second synthetic control model, which assumes a border reopen on 7 May 2020 demonstrates nonpositive effects of extending the border restriction policy on preventing and controlling infections. We conclude that the border restriction policy and its further extension may not be useful in containing the spread of COVID-19 when the virus is already circulating in the local community. Given the substantial economic and social costs, and as precautionary measures against COVID-19 becomes the new normal, countries can consider reopening borders with neighbors who have COVID-19 under control. Governments also need to closely monitor the changing epidemic situations in other countries in order to make prompt and sensible amendments to their border restriction policies.
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- Pengyu Zhu
- Associate Professor Division of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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- PhD Student in Public Policy, Division of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Huang J, Chen C. Metapopulation epidemic models with a universal mobility pattern on interconnected networks. Physica A 2022; 591:126692. [PMID: 34955590 PMCID: PMC8685259 DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2021.126692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The global pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) exemplifies the influence of human mobility on epidemic spreading. A framework called the movement-interaction-return (MIR) model is a model to study the impact of human mobility on epidemic spreading. In this paper, we investigate epidemic spreading in interconnected metapopulation networks. Specifically, we incorporate the human mobility pattern called the radiation model into the MIR model. As a result, the proposed model is more realistic in comparison to the original MIR model. We use the tensorial framework to develop Markovian equations that describe the dynamics of the proposed model on interconnected metapopulation networks. Then we derive the corresponding epidemic thresholds by converting tensors into matrices. Comprehensive numerical simulations confirm our analysis.
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- Jinyu Huang
- School of Computer Science, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, Sichuan, China
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- School of Computer Science, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, Sichuan, China
- College of Information Engineering, Mokwon University in Korea, Datian, Republic of Korea
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Tuladhar R, Grigolini P, Santamaria F. The allometric propagation of COVID-19 is explained by human travel. Infect Dis Model 2022; 7:122-133. [PMID: 34926874 PMCID: PMC8670009 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2021.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Revised: 12/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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We analyzed the number of cumulative positive cases of COVID-19 as a function of time in countries around the World. We tracked the increase in cases from the onset of the pandemic in each region for up to 150 days. We found that in 81 out of 146 regions the trajectory was described with a power-law function for up to 30 days. We also detected scale-free properties in the majority of sub-regions in Australia, Canada, China, and the United States (US). We developed an allometric model that was capable of fitting the initial phase of the pandemic and was the best predictor for the propagation of the illness for up to 100 days. We then determined that the power-law COVID-19 exponent correlated with measurements of human mobility. The COVID-19 exponent correlated with the magnitude of air passengers per country. This correlation persisted when we analyzed the number of air passengers per US states, and even per US metropolitan areas. Furthermore, the COVID-19 exponent correlated with the number of vehicle miles traveled in the US. Together, air and vehicular travel explained 70% of the variability of the COVID-19 exponent. Taken together, our results suggest that the scale-free propagation of the virus is present at multiple geographical scales and is correlated with human mobility. We conclude that models of disease transmission should integrate scale-free dynamics as part of the modeling strategy and not only as an emergent phenomenological property.
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- Rohisha Tuladhar
- Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 76203, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA
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Tang L, Liu M, Ren B, Chen J, Liu X, Wu X, Huang W, Tian J. Transmission in home environment associated with the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India. Environ Res 2022; 204:111910. [PMID: 34464619 PMCID: PMC8401083 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Revised: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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India has suffered from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic since March 2021. This wave of the outbreak has been more serious than the first wave pandemic in 2020, which suggests that some new transmission characteristics may exist. COVID-19 is transmitted through droplets, aerosols, and contact with infected surfaces. Air pollutants are also considered to be associated with COVID-19 transmission. However, the roles of indoor transmission in the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of these factors in indoor environments are still poorly understood. Our study focused on reveal the role of indoor transmission in the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India. Our results indicated that human mobility in the home environment had the highest relative influence on COVID-19 daily growth rate in the country. The COVID-19 daily growth rate was significantly positively correlated with the residential percent rate in most state-level areas in India. A significant positive nonlinear relationship was found when the residential percent ratio ranged from 100 to 120%. Further, epidemic dynamics modelling indicated that a higher proportion of indoor transmission in the home environment was able to intensify the severity of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India. Our findings suggested that more attention should be paid to the indoor transmission in home environment. The public health strategies to reduce indoor transmission such as ventilation and centralized isolation will be beneficial to the prevention and control of COVID-19.
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- Liwei Tang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China; Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China; International Cancer Center, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China; Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science-Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital Fujian Key Laboratory of Molecular Neurology, Fuzhou, Fu Jian, 350001, China
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- International Cancer Center, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China; Department of Urology, Shenzhen Institute of Translational Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518035, China; Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.
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Yabe T, Tsubouchi K, Sekimoto Y, Ukkusuri SV. Early warning of COVID-19 hotspots using human mobility and web search query data. Comput Environ Urban Syst 2022; 92:101747. [PMID: 34931101 PMCID: PMC8673829 DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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COVID-19 has disrupted the global economy and well-being of people at an unprecedented scale and magnitude. To contain the disease, an effective early warning system that predicts the locations of outbreaks is of crucial importance. Studies have shown the effectiveness of using large-scale mobility data to monitor the impacts of non-pharmaceutical interventions (e.g., lockdowns) through population density analysis. However, predicting the locations of potential outbreak occurrence is difficult using mobility data alone. Meanwhile, web search queries have been shown to be good predictors of the disease spread. In this study, we utilize a unique dataset of human mobility trajectories (GPS traces) and web search queries with common user identifiers (> 450 K users), to predict COVID-19 hotspot locations beforehand. More specifically, web search query analysis is conducted to identify users with high risk of COVID-19 contraction, and social contact analysis was further performed on the mobility patterns of these users to quantify the risk of an outbreak. Our approach is empirically tested using data collected from users in Tokyo, Japan. We show that by integrating COVID-19 related web search query analytics with social contact networks, we are able to predict COVID-19 hotspot locations 1-2 weeks beforehand, compared to just using social contact indexes or web search data analysis. This study proposes a novel method that can be used in early warning systems for disease outbreak hotspots, which can assist government agencies to prepare effective strategies to prevent further disease spread. Human mobility data and web search query data linked with common IDs are used to predict COVID-19 outbreaks. High risk social contact index captures both the contact density and COVID-19 contraction risks of individuals. Real world data was collected from 200 K individual users in Tokyo during the COVID-19 pandemic. Experiments showed that the index can be used for microscopic outbreak early warning.
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- Takahiro Yabe
- Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
- Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 50 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Yahoo Japan Corporation, Kioi Tower, Tokyo, Garden Terrace Kioicho, 1-3, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba Meguro-Ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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