Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A review

N Perra - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases and human behavior are intertwined. On one side, our movements and
interactions are the engines of transmission. On the other, the unfolding of viruses might …

Integrating digital technologies and public health to fight Covid-19 pandemic: key technologies, applications, challenges and outlook of digital healthcare

Q Wang, M Su, M Zhang, R Li - International Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Integration of digital technologies and public health (or digital healthcare) helps us to fight
the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is the biggest public health …

Agent-based social simulation of the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review

F Lorig, E Johansson… - Journal of Artificial …, 2021 - classical.goforpromo.com
When planning interventions to limit the spread of Covid-19, the current state of knowledge
about the disease and specific characteristics of the population need to be considered …

A systematic review of prediction methods for emergency management

D Huang, S Wang, Z Liu - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 - Elsevier
With the trend of global warming and destructive human activities, the frequent occurrences
of catastrophes have posed devastating threats to human life and social stability worldwide …

Beyond just “flattening the curve”: Optimal control of epidemics with purely non-pharmaceutical interventions

M Kantner, T Koprucki - Journal of Mathematics in Industry, 2020 - Springer
When effective medical treatment and vaccination are not available, non-pharmaceutical
interventions such as social distancing, home quarantine and far-reaching shutdown of …

[HTML][HTML] Returning to a normal life via COVID-19 vaccines in the United States: A large-scale agent-based simulation study

J Li, P Giabbanelli - JMIR medical informatics, 2021 - medinform.jmir.org
Background In 2020, COVID-19 has claimed more than 300,000 deaths in the United States
alone. Although nonpharmaceutical interventions were implemented by federal and state …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal simulation of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak using the agent-based modeling approach (case study: Urmia, Iran)

NM Gharakhanlou, N Hooshangi - Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2020 - Elsevier
The ongoing outbreak of the COVID-19 as the current global concern threatens lives of
many people around the world. COVID-19 is highly contagious so that it has infected more …

Effects of social distancing and isolation on epidemic spreading modeled via dynamical density functional theory

M Te Vrugt, J Bickmann, R Wittkowski - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
For preventing the spread of epidemics such as the coronavirus disease COVID-19, social
distancing and the isolation of infected persons are crucial. However, existing reaction …

Impact of physical distancing policy on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 globally: Perspective from government's response and residents' compliance

PC Chung, TC Chan - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency by the World Health
Organization (WHO) in January 2020. Various physical distancing interventions were …

An exploration of fractal-based prognostic model and comparative analysis for second wave of COVID-19 diffusion

D Easwaramoorthy, A Gowrisankar, A Manimaran… - Nonlinear …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has fatalized 216 countries
across the world and has claimed the lives of millions of people globally. Researches are …