Rapid surveillance of COVID-19 in the United States using a prospective space-time scan statistic: Detecting and evaluating emerging clusters

MR Desjardins, A Hohl, EM Delmelle - Applied geography, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, China in
December 2019, and is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Detecting space–time clusters of COVID-19 in Brazil: mortality, inequality, socioeconomic vulnerability, and the relative risk of the disease in Brazilian municipalities

MR Martines, RV Ferreira, RH Toppa… - Journal of Geographical …, 2021 - Springer
The first case of COVID-19 in South America occurred in Brazil on February 25, 2020. By
July 20, 2020, there were 2,118,646 confirmed cases and 80,120 confirmed deaths. To …

Residential mobility impacts relative risk estimates of space-time clusters of chlamydia in Kalamazoo County, Michigan

C Owusu, MR Desjardins, KM Baker… - Geospatial …, 2019 - geospatialhealth.net
We determine the impact of residential mobility in the prevalence and transmission
dynamics of sexually transmitted infections. We illustrate our approach on reported …

Applying a prospective space-time scan statistic to examine the evolution of COVID-19 clusters in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil

RV Ferreira, MR Martines, RH Toppa, LM Assunção… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
We present the first geographic study that uses space-time statistics to monitor COVID-19 in
Brazil. The first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in December 2019 in Wuhan, China …

A Mixed-Methods Approach for Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance in Colombia

MR Desjardins - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) affect more than 1 billion people a year worldwide, cause
over 1 million deaths, and result in hundreds of billions of dollars in societal costs. Dengue …