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ArticleJournal of applied statistics2025

COVINet: a deep learning-based and interpretable prediction model for the county-wise trajectories of COVID-19 in the United States.

Yukang Jiang, Ting Tian, Wenting Zhou, Yuting Zhang, Zhongfei Li, Xueqin Wang, Heping Zhang

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Article in Journal of applied statistics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Yukang JiangSchool of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Ting TianSchool of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Wenting ZhouSchool of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Yuting ZhangSchool of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Zhongfei LiBusiness School, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
Xueqin WangSchool of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, People's Republic of China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5205-9950
Heping ZhangSchool of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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Abstract

The devastating impact of COVID-19 on the United States has been profound since its onset in January 2020. Predicting the trajectory of epidemics accurately and devising strategies to curb their progression are currently formidable challenges. In response to this crisis, we propose COVINet, which combines the architecture of Long Short-Term Memory and Gated Recurrent Unit, incorporating actionable covariates to offer high-accuracy prediction and explainable response. First, we train COVINet models for confirmed cases and total deaths with five input features, and compare Mean Absolute Errors (MAEs) and Mean Relative Errors (MREs) of COVINet against ten competing models from the United States CDC in the last four weeks before April 26, 2021. The results show COVINet outperforms all competing models for MAEs and MREs when predicting total deaths. Then, we focus on prediction for the most severe county in each of the top 10 hot-spot states using COVINet. The MREs are small for all predictions made in the last 7 or 30 days before March 23, 2023. Beyond predictive accuracy, COVINet offers high interpretability, enhancing the understanding of pandemic dynamics. This dual capability positions COVINet as a powerful tool for informing effective strategies in pandemic prevention and governmental decision-making.

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00A6962L1062P25air pollutionCOVINetgeographical signalsinterpretable deep learningsevere housing problemstraffic volume

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PMID40160484
PMCPMC11951337

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