Leveraging data science to combat COVID-19: A comprehensive review

S Latif, M Usman, S Manzoor, W Iqbal… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was declared a
pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020. By mid-August 2020 …

Linking fast and slow: The case for generative models

J Medrano, K Friston, P Zeidman - Network Neuroscience, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
A pervasive challenge in neuroscience is testing whether neuronal connectivity changes
over time due to specific causes, such as stimuli, events, or clinical interventions. Recent …

SARS‐CoV‐2 coinfections: Could influenza and the common cold be beneficial?

L Pinky, HM Dobrovolny - Journal of Medical Virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has
rapidly spread around the world, causing serious illness and death and creating a heavy …

Impact of US vaccination strategy on COVID-19 wave dynamics

C Cot, G Cacciapaglia, AS Islind, M Oskarsdottir… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We employ the epidemic Renormalization Group (eRG) framework to understand, reproduce
and predict the COVID-19 pandemic diffusion across the US. The human mobility across …

[HTML][HTML] Supervised structure learning

KJ Friston, L Da Costa, A Tschantz, A Kiefer… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper concerns structure learning or discovery of discrete generative models. It focuses
on Bayesian model selection and the assimilation of training data or content, with a special …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of the effect of the state of emergency for the first wave of COVID-19 in Japan

T Kuniya - Infectious Disease Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the state of emergency for the first wave of COVID-19
in Japan, 2020 from the viewpoint of mathematical modelling. In Japan, it was announced …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical-epidemiologic variation in patients treated in the first and second wave of COVID-19 in Lambayeque, Peru: A cluster analysis

MJ Valladares-Garrido, VE Failoc-Rojas… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To identify differences in the clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of patients
during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic at the EsSalud Lambayeque …

An active inference account of protective behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic

H Bottemanne, KJ Friston - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2021 - Springer
Newly emerging infectious diseases, such as the coronavirus (COVID-19), create new
challenges for public healthcare systems. Before effective treatments, countering the spread …

Standard and anomalous waves of COVID-19: A multiple-wave growth model for epidemics

GL Vasconcelos, AA Brum, FAG Almeida… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
We apply a generalized logistic growth model, with time-dependent parameters, to describe
the fatality curves of the COVID-19 disease for several countries that exhibit multiple waves …

Dynamic causal modelling of COVID-19 and its mitigations

KJ Friston, G Flandin, A Razi - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
This technical report describes the dynamic causal modelling of mitigated epidemiological
outcomes during the COVID-9 coronavirus outbreak in 2020. Dynamic causal modelling is a …