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Spatiotemporal Differences of COVID-19 Infection among Healthcare Workers and Patients in China from January to March 2020

Peixiao Wang, Xinyan Zhu, Wei Guo, Hui Ren, Tao Hu
2021 IEEE Access  
To fill this research gap, this study assessed the spatiotemporal characteristics and differences among patients and HCWs infection in Wuhan, Hubei (excluding Wuhan), and China (excluding Hubei).  ...  Studying the spatiotemporal differences in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) between social groups such as healthcare workers (HCWs) and patients can aid in formulating epidemic containment policies.  ...  This study analyzed the temporal and spatial spread characteristics of and differences in COVID-19 among patients and healthcare workers from three perspectives: China (excluding Hubei), Hubei (excluding  ... 
doi:10.1109/access.2021.3058155 pmid:34812380 pmcid:PMC8545239 fatcat:alzsqjki3ncrxdq35ezdy7xfse

Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distribution using healthcare worker infection data [article]

Peixiao Wang, Tao Hu, Hongqiang Liu, Xinyan Zhu
2022 arXiv   pre-print
Therefore, in this paper, a novel framework was proposed to explore the impact of under-reporting on COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions, and empirical analysis was carried out using infection data of  ...  A timely understanding of the spatiotemporal pattern and development trend of COVID-19 is critical for timely prevention and control.  ...  Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees, editor, and Prof. Shuming Bao (email: sbao@umich.edu) for their helpful comments and suggestions.  ... 
arXiv:2011.04892v7 fatcat:lapene3webgu7klmaumcjkwzme

Transmission of COVID-19 from community to healthcare agencies and back to community: a retrospective study of data from Wuhan, China

Mei Yang, Anshu Li, Gengchen Xie, Yanhui Pang, Xiaoqi Zhou, Qiman Jin, Juan Dai, Yaqiong Yan, Yan Guo, Xinghua Liu
2021 BMJ Open  
COVID-19 case series reported to the Municipal Notifiable Disease Report System of Wuhan from December 2019 to March 2020 from 17 communities were collected.  ...  to 78.12).ConclusionTransmission of COVID-19 from the community to healthcare agencies and back to the community was confirmed in Wuhan.  ...  Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the COVID-19 data reporting and administrative staff.  ... 
doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053068 pmid:34921080 pmcid:PMC8688731 fatcat:eum54qirwjamfdpmkg3nq5symq

Spatiotemporal epidemiology of COVID-19 from an epidemic course perspective

Yuling Huang, Shujuan Yang, Yuxuan Zou, Jianming Su, Canglang Wu, Bo Zhong, Peng Jia
2022 Geospatial Health  
Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remains rampant in many countries, it has recently waned in Sichuan, China.  ...  This study examined spatiotemporal variations of the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 across its course.  ...  Since the onset of the outbreak in early January 2020, the epidemic trend in China has gradually transformed from local infections to infections by cases arriving from foreign countries.  ... 
doi:10.4081/gh.2022.1023 pmid:35147015 fatcat:z5prz6en4zd7deaqfqvbqwafea

Continental Transmission of Emerging COVID-19 on the 38o North Latitude

Mei-Sheng Ku, Li-Min Huang, Sherry Yueh-Hsia Chiu, Wei-Chun Wang, Ya-Chung Jeng, Mu-Yong Yen, Chao-Chih Lai
2021 Journal of the Formosan Medical Association  
The dynamic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered model was used to evaluate continental transmission from December 2019 to March 2020 before the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic with basic reproductive number  ...  For the initial COVID-19 outbreak in China, the estimated reproductive number was reduced from 2.84 during the overwhelming outbreaks in early January to 0.43 after the strict lockdown policy.  ...  Acknowledgements This study was supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 109-2327-B-002-009). Appendix A.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.jfma.2021.05.008 pmid:34112588 pmcid:PMC8166523 fatcat:duvlqbet3vfvhm6wvwhqn7cq5a

Spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of COVID-19 in China: a city-level modeling study

Qianqian Ma, Jinghong Gao, Wenjie Zhang, Linlin Wang, Mingyuan Li, Jinming Shi, Yunkai Zhai, Dongxu Sun, Lin Wang, Baozhan Chen, Shuai Jiang, Jie Zhao
2021 BMC Infectious Diseases  
Methods A spatiotemporal statistical analysis of COVID-19 cases was carried out by collecting the confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China from January 10, 2020 to October 5, 2020.  ...  Results The high incidence stage of China's COVID-19 epidemic was from January 17 to February 9, 2020 with daily increase rate greater than 7.5%.  ...  Acknowledgements Special thanks to the people who were struggling in the healthcare fields to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak.  ... 
doi:10.1186/s12879-021-06515-8 pmid:34391402 pmcid:PMC8363872 fatcat:rpbmj7a5kjcv5h32kn5c6phrfq

Spatiotemporal patterns and trends of community transmission of the pandemic COVID-19 in South Asia: Bangladesh as a case study

Ariful Islam, Md Abu Sayeed, Md Kaisar Rahman, Jinnat Ferdous, Shahanaj Shano, Shusmita Dutta Choudhury, Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan
2020 Biosafety and Health  
Findings from this study suggested the "test, trace, and isolation" approach for earlier detection of infection to prevent further community transmission of COVID-19.  ...  We extracted data from the WHO and the worldometer database from the onset of the outbreak up to 15 May 2020.  ...  We acknowledge the Department of Health Services of each country in South Asia for publicly sharing COVID-19 outbreak data.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.bsheal.2020.09.006 pmid:32989431 pmcid:PMC7510419 fatcat:abhgm4eziff7porwunyj7ttmnu

Co-infection of SARS-CoV-2 with other respiratory viruses and performance of lower respiratory tract samples for the diagnosis of COVID-19

Sonia Burrel, Pierre Hausfater, Martin Dres, Valérie Pourcher, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Elisa Teyssou, Cathia Soulié, Vincent Calvez, Anne-Geneviève Marcelin, David Boutolleau
2020 International Journal of Infectious Diseases  
From January 25th through March 29th, 2020, all URT and LRT samples collected from patients with suspected COVID-19 received in the virology laboratory of Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital (Paris,  ...  We performed a study during the early outbreak period of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the seasonal epidemics of other respiratory viral infections in order to describe the extent of co-infections  ...  Acknowledgements We thank all healthcare workers involved in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 patients in Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital (Paris, France).  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.040 pmid:33115679 pmcid:PMC7585729 fatcat:2cxkykqc7jfvnfh72zoshxaq5u

Virology, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Control of COVID-19

Yuefei Jin, Haiyan Yang, Wangquan Ji, Weidong Wu, Shuaiyin Chen, Weiguo Zhang, Guangcai Duan
2020 Viruses  
The outbreak of emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) in China has been brought to global attention and declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization  ...  (WHO) on March 11, 2020.  ...  Spatiotemporal distribution of COVID-19. (A) The spread and decline of COVID-19 in mainland China over time.  ... 
doi:10.3390/v12040372 pmid:32230900 pmcid:PMC7232198 fatcat:lijkhmmpazdrbo6e6b27vxz7oq

Exploring the Spatiotemporal Characteristics of COVID-19 Infections among Healthcare Workers: A Multi-Scale Perspective

Hui Ren, Peixiao Wang, Wei Guo, Xinyan Zhu
2021 ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information  
The outbreak of COVID-19 has constantly exposed health care workers (HCWs) around the world to a high risk of infection.  ...  To more accurately discover the infection differences among high-risk occupations and institutions, Hubei Province was taken as an example to explore the spatiotemporal characteristics of HCWs at different  ...  Acknowledgments: We are very grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and the editor's careful revisions. Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.  ... 
doi:10.3390/ijgi10100691 fatcat:g5anllrd65ht7fjsm7xpwj4bbi

Effect of public health interventions on COVID-19 cases: an observational study

Weihong Qiu, Heng He, Peng Zhang, Wenwen Yang, Tingming Shi, Xing Wang, Ailian Chen, Li Xie, Meng Yang, Dongming Wang, Mingyan Li, Weihong Chen
2021 Thorax  
Data for COVID-19 cases in Hubei Province (capital, Wuhan) was extracted until 7 March 2020.  ...  The spatiotemporal distribution of the epidemic in four periods (before 10 January, 10-22 January, 23 January-6 February and 7 February-7 March) was evaluated, and the impacts of interventions were observed  ...  We also thank the Chinese government and people for their great sacrifices and efforts to fight COVID-19.  ... 
doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215086 pmid:33593930 pmcid:PMC7887867 fatcat:24errkbrjnbv7f4qc2dwuvbd6q

Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 followed by community and nosocomial spread, Germany, February to May 2020

Maximilian Muenchhoff, Alexander Graf, Stefan Krebs, Caroline Quartucci, Sandra Hasmann, Johannes Hellmuth, Clemens Scherer, Andreas Osterman, Stephan Boehm, Christopher Mandel, Andrea Becker-Pennrich, Michael Zoller (+26 others)
2021 Eurosurveillance  
In these early weeks, the rate of presumable hospital-acquired infections among patients and in particular healthcare workers was high (9.6% and 54%, respectively) and we illustrated how transmission chains  ...  Methods We investigated 289 COVID-19 cases at a university hospital in Munich, Germany, between 29 February and 27 May 2020.  ...  We gratefully acknowledge the authors, originating and submitting laboratories of the sequences from GISAID's EpiCoV Database used in the phylogenetic analysis.  ... 
doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2021.26.43.2002066 pmid:34713795 pmcid:PMC8555370 fatcat:y2xp7vxhxng2voxojoqx7blkya

Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Leiwen Fu, Bingyi Wang, Tanwei Yuan, Xiaoting Chen, Yunlong Ao, Tom Fitzpatrick, Peiyang Li, Yiguo Zhou, Yifan Lin, Qibin Duan, Ganfeng Luo, Song Fan (+10 others)
2020 Journal of Infection  
CFR and laboratory abnormalities were higher in severe cases, patients from Wuhan, and older patients, but CFR did not differ by gender.  ...  To better inform efforts to treat and control the current outbreak with a comprehensive characterization of COVID-19.  ...  The earliest enrollment time was 16 December 2019 and the latest was 27 January 2020. laboratory confirmed COVID-19. The number of patients enrolled in each study ranged from 4 to 1099.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.041 pmid:32283155 pmcid:PMC7151416 fatcat:jfurjfh2jjgzbinb53zzv2owfe

Spatial analysis and GIS in the study of COVID-19. A review

Ivan Franch-Pardo, Brian M. Napoletano, Fernando Rosete-Verges, Lawal Billa
2020 Science of the Total Environment  
Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of COVID-19 is essential for its mitigation, as it helps to clarify the extent and impact of the pandemic and can aid decision making, planning and community action  ...  This review concludes that, to fight COVID-19, it is important to face the challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective, with proactive planning, international solidarity and a global perspective.  ...  The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140033 pmid:32534320 pmcid:PMC7832930 fatcat:qjpnjimdinaohjyq36gjqjqmfm

Geospatial Analysis of COVID-19: A Scoping Review

Munazza Fatima, Kara J. O'Keefe, Wenjia Wei, Sana Arshad, Oliver Gruebner
2021 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health  
The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China in late December 2019 became the harbinger of the COVID-19 pandemic.  ...  most of the researchers from exploring causal relationships of potential influencing factors of COVID-19.  ...  Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.  ... 
doi:10.3390/ijerph18052336 pmid:33673545 fatcat:pv7vtqkuyndtbfqh376w46lvvi
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