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Editor, Senior Moderator
Sci Rep
. 2021 Feb 25;11(1):4660.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84145-5.
A syndromic surveillance tool to detect anomalous clusters of COVID-19 symptoms in the United States
Amparo G?emes[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Soumyajit Ray[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 2 [/SUP], Khaled Aboumerhi[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 2 [/SUP], Michael R Desjardins[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 3 [/SUP], Anton Kvit[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Anne E Corrigan[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Brendan Fries[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Timothy Shields[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Robert D Stevens[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Frank C Curriero[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ralph Etienne-Cummings[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Coronavirus SARS-COV-2 infections continue to spread across the world, yet effective large-scale disease detection and prediction remain limited. COVID Control: A Johns Hopkins University Study, is a novel syndromic surveillance approach, which collects body temperature and COVID-like illness (CLI) symptoms across the US using a smartphone app and applies spatio-temporal clustering techniques and cross-correlation analysis to create maps of abnormal symptomatology incidence that are made publicly available. The results of the cross-correlation analysis identify optimal temporal lags between symptoms and a range of COVID-19 outcomes, with new taste/smell loss showing the highest correlations. We also identified temporal clusters of change in taste/smell entries and confirmed COVID-19 incidence in Baltimore City and County. Further, we utilized an extended simulated dataset to showcase our analytics in Maryland. The resulting clusters can serve as indicators of emerging COVID-19 outbreaks, and support syndromic surveillance as an early warning system for disease prevention and control.
. 2021 Feb 25;11(1):4660.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84145-5.
A syndromic surveillance tool to detect anomalous clusters of COVID-19 symptoms in the United States
Amparo G?emes[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Soumyajit Ray[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 2 [/SUP], Khaled Aboumerhi[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 2 [/SUP], Michael R Desjardins[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 3 [/SUP], Anton Kvit[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Anne E Corrigan[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Brendan Fries[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Timothy Shields[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Robert D Stevens[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Frank C Curriero[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ralph Etienne-Cummings[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33633250
- DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-84145-5
Abstract
Coronavirus SARS-COV-2 infections continue to spread across the world, yet effective large-scale disease detection and prediction remain limited. COVID Control: A Johns Hopkins University Study, is a novel syndromic surveillance approach, which collects body temperature and COVID-like illness (CLI) symptoms across the US using a smartphone app and applies spatio-temporal clustering techniques and cross-correlation analysis to create maps of abnormal symptomatology incidence that are made publicly available. The results of the cross-correlation analysis identify optimal temporal lags between symptoms and a range of COVID-19 outcomes, with new taste/smell loss showing the highest correlations. We also identified temporal clusters of change in taste/smell entries and confirmed COVID-19 incidence in Baltimore City and County. Further, we utilized an extended simulated dataset to showcase our analytics in Maryland. The resulting clusters can serve as indicators of emerging COVID-19 outbreaks, and support syndromic surveillance as an early warning system for disease prevention and control.