COVID-TRACK: world and USA SARS-COV-2 testing and COVID-19 tracking

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dc.citation.articleNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleBioData Miningen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber14en_US
dc.contributor.authorZohner, Ye Emmaen_US
dc.contributor.authorMorris, Jeffrey S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-09T19:48:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2021-02-09T19:48:00Zen_US
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major health and socio-economic disruptions worldwide. Accurate investigation of emerging data is crucial to inform policy makers as they construct viral mitigation strategies. Complications such as variable testing rates and time lags in counting cases, hospitalizations and deaths make it challenging to accurately track and identify true infectious surges from available data, and requires a multi-modal approach that simultaneously considers testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths. Although many websites and applications report a subset of these data, none of them provide graphical displays capable of comparing different states or countries on all these measures as well as various useful quantities derived from them. Here we introduce a freely available dynamic representation tool, COVID-TRACK, that allows the user to simultaneously assess time trends in these measures and compare various states or countries, equipping them with a tool to investigate the potential effects of the different mitigation strategies and timelines used by various jurisdictions. Findings: COVID-TRACK is a Python based web-application that provides a platform for tracking testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths related to COVID-19 along with various derived quantities. Our application makes the comparison across states in the USA and countries in the world easy to explore, with useful transformation options including per capita, log scale, and/or moving averages. We illustrate its use by assessing various viral trends in the USA and Europe. Conclusion: The COVID-TRACK web-application is a user-friendly analytical tool to compare data and trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic across areas in the United States and worldwide. Our tracking tool provides a unique platform where trends can be monitored across geographical areas in the coming months to watch how the pandemic waxes and wanes over time at different locations around the USA and the globe.en_US
dc.identifier.citationZohner, Ye Emma and Morris, Jeffrey S.. "COVID-TRACK: world and USA SARS-COV-2 testing and COVID-19 tracking." <i>BioData Mining,</i> 14, (2021) BioMed Central: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13040-021-00233-2.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s13040-021-00233-2en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/109831en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_US
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dc.titleCOVID-TRACK: world and USA SARS-COV-2 testing and COVID-19 trackingen_US
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