Community resilience to pandemics: An assessment framework developed based on the review of COVID-19 literature

M Suleimany, S Mokhtarzadeh, A Sharifi - International Journal of Disaster …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak in 2019 and the challenges it posed to communities around the
world, demonstrated the necessity of enhancing the resilience of communities to pandemics …

A review of GIS methodologies to analyze the dynamics of COVID‐19 in the second half of 2020

I Franch‐Pardo, MR Desjardins… - Transactions in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 has infected over 163 million people and has resulted in over 3.9 million deaths.
Regarding the tools and strategies to research the ongoing pandemic, spatial analysis has …

Analyzing the spatial determinants of local Covid-19 transmission in the United States

LM Andersen, SR Harden, MM Sugg, JD Runkle… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) has quickly spread across the United
States (US) since community transmission was first identified in January 2020. While a …

Ranking the importance of demographic, socioeconomic, and underlying health factors on US COVID-19 deaths: A geographical random forest approach

G Grekousis, Z Feng, I Marakakis, Y Lu, R Wang - Health & Place, 2022 - Elsevier
A growing number of studies show that the uneven spatial distribution of COVID-19 deaths is
related to demographic and socioeconomic disparities across space. However, most studies …

[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 …

Using machine learning to develop a novel COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (C19VI)

A Tiwari, AV Dadhania, VAB Ragunathrao… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 is now one of the most leading causes of death in the United States (US).
Systemic health, social and economic disparities have put the minorities and economically …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal clustering patterns and sociodemographic determinants of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in Helsinki, Finland

M Siljander, R Uusitalo, P Pellikka, S Isosomppi… - Spatial and spatio …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to elucidate the variations in spatiotemporal patterns and sociodemographic
determinants of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Helsinki, Finland. Global and local spatial …

GIS-based COVID-19 vulnerability mapping in the West Bank, Palestine

S Shadeed, S Alawna - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 - Elsevier
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world stands idly by in the face of the
virus spreading. The prediction of highly vulnerable population and the implementation of …

Changing vulnerability for hurricane evacuation during a pandemic: Issues and anticipated responses in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic

JL Whytlaw, N Hutton, JEW Yusuf, T Richardson… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hurricane evacuations during a pandemic require a revised understanding of vulnerabilities
within communities and the development of different strategies and policies to accommodate …

The main factors influencing COVID-19 spread and deaths in Mexico: A comparison between phases I and II

F Benita, F Gasca-Sanchez - Applied Geography, 2021 - Elsevier
This article investigates the geographical spread of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths
across municipalities in Mexico. It focuses on the spread dynamics and containment of the …