Scientists and engineers worldwide continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some examples of their work in epidemiology, diagnostics, and public health.
Systemic inflammatory syndrome in COVID-19–SISCoV study: systematic review and meta-analysis
Debjyoti Dhar et al, Pediatric Research, May 18 2021
paper
COVID-DeepPredictor: Recurrent Neural Network to Predict SARS-CoV-2 and Other Pathogenic Viruses
Indrajit Saha et al, Frontiers in Genetics, February 11 2021
paper andMATLAB code
Emergence of unique SARS-CoV-2 ORF10 variants and their impact on protein structure and function
Sk. Sarif Hassan et al, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, January 1 2022
paper andrelated article
Functional and microstructural brain abnormalities, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction after mild COVID-19
Lucas Scardua Silva et al, medRxiv, December 6 2021
preprint andSPM software
SARS-CoV-2 virus transfers to skin through contact with contaminated solids
Saeed Behzadinasab et al, Nature: Scientific Reports, November 24 2021
paper
Mathematical modeling of COVID-19 transmission dynamics between healthcare workers and community
Lemjini Masandawa et al, Results in Physics, September 6 2021
paper
Characterization of the Second Wave of COVID-19 in India
Rajesh Ranjan et al, medRxiv, May 2 2021
paper preprint
Smartphone science: apps test and track infectious diseases
Sandeep Ravindran, Nature, May 10 2021
paper
COVID-19 pathophysiology may be driven by an imbalance in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
Susanne Rysz et al, Nature Communications, April 23 2021
paper
Modelling personal cautiousness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study for Turkey and Italy
Hatice Bulut et al, Nonlinear Dyn, February 20 2021
paper
A novel methodology for epidemic risk assessment of COVID-19 outbreak
A. Pluchino et al, Nature: Scientific Reports, March 5 2021
paper
Toolbox to simulate and mitigate COVID-19 propagation
Zahrate El Oula Frihi et al, SoftwareX, June 2021
paper andGitHub MATLAB code repo
Mathematical model of COVID-19 intervention scenarios for São Paulo—Brazil
Osmar Pinto Neto et al, Nature Communications, January 18 2021
paper andZenodo code
An extended Weight Kernel Density Estimation model forecasts COVID-19 onset risk and identifies spatiotemporal variations of lockdown effects in China
Wenzhong Shi et al, Communications Biology, 2021
paper andZenodo code
MSC-NTF (NurOwn®)液:一种新的治疗模式在密苏里州use LPS-induced ARDS model
Haggai Kaspi et al, Stem Cell Research & Therapy, January 19 2021
paper
Forecasting of medical equipment demand and outbreak spreading based on deep long short‑term memory network: the COVID‑19 pandemic in Turkey
Erdinç Koç and Muammer Türkoğlu, Signal, Image and Video Processing, September 8 2020
paper
Retinal findings in patients with COVID-19: Results from the SERPICO-19 study
Alessandro Invernizzi et al, The Lancet, September 20 2020
paper withARIA - retinal vessel analysis MATLAB code
Modeling Social Distancing Strategies to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Israel: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Amir Shlomai et al, Value in Health, December 9 2020
paper
Fast detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA via the integration of plasmonic thermocycling and fluorescence detection in a portable device
Jiyong Cheong et al, Nature Biomedical Engineering, December 3 2020
paper
In-host Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 in Humans
Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas and Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez, Annual Reviews in Control, September 30 2020
paper
Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in three children of parents with symptomatic COVID-19
Shidan Tosif et al, Nature Communications, November 11 2020
paper
Testing sewage to home in on Covid-19
Scott Murray, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, October 28, 2020
article,paper with MATLAB code
The geography of COVID-19 spread in Italy and implications for the relaxation of confinement measures
Enrico Bertuzzo et al, Nature, August 26 2020
paper
Second Version of a COVID-19 Simulator
Cleve Moler, Cleve's Corner, March 29, 2020
blog post andMATLAB code and app
COVID-19 Spread Predictor
Ahmed Abel-Gawad, MATLAB File Exchange, July 18th
MATLAB code
Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in COVID-19 Patients – An MRI-based 3-month Follow-up Study
Yiping Lu et al, The Lancet, August 3 2020
paper
Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19
Adam Hampshire et al, EClinical Medicine, July 22 2021
paper
Modeling serological testing to inform relaxation of social distancing for COVID-19 control
Alicia N. M. Kraay et al, Nature Communications, December 3 2021
paper andMATLAB code
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during air travel: a descriptive and modelling study
Jinjun Zhang et al, Infectious Diseases, August 31 2021
paper
ANFIS-Net for automatic detection of COVID-19
Afnan Al-ali et al, Nature: Scientific Reports, August 27 2021
paper
Temporal Dynamics of COVID-19 Outbreak and Future Projections: A Data-Driven Approach
Rajesh Ranjan, Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, June 6 2020
paper
Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Yafang Cheng et al, Science, May 20 2021
paper, MATLABcode and data
Modeling vaccination rollouts, SARS-CoV-2 variants and the requirement for non-pharmaceutical interventions in Italy
Giulia Giordano et al, Nature Medicine, April 16 2021
paper
Cognitive impairment and altered cerebral glucose metabolism in the subacute stage of COVID-19
Jonas A Hosp et al, BRAIN: A Journal of Neurology, April 3 2021
paper
Real-time tracking and prediction of COVID-19 infection using digital proxies of population mobility and mixing
Kathy Leung et al, Nature Communications, March 8 2021
paper
Modelling uncertainty in the relative risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by airborne aerosol transmission in well mixed indoor air
Benjamin Jones et al, Building and Environment, March 15 2021
paper
COVID-19 intervention models: An initial aggressive treatment strategy for controlling the infection
Bismark Oduro and Vusi Mpendulo Magagula, Infect Dis Model, January 23 2021
paper
Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks with Financial Incentives
Chaeyoung Lee et al, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 15 2021
paper
The optimal lockdown intensity for COVID-19
Jonathan P. Caulkins et al, Journal of Mathematical Economics, February 3 2021
paper
Electricity demand during pandemic times: The case of the COVID-19 in Spain
I. Santiago et al, Energy Policy, January 2021
paper
Optimal COVID-19 quarantine and testing strategies
Chad R. Wells et al, Nature Communications, 2021
paper
Management strategies in a SEIR-type model of COVID 19 community spread
Anca Rǎdulescu et al, Nature: Scientific Reports, December 4 2020
paper
Variation of quantified infection rates of mixed samples to enhance rapid testing during an epidemic
Usama Kadri, Health Systems, September 13 2020
paper
Development of the Intelligent Pneumatic Sewing Platform for Mask Production
Hao-Ting Lin, IEEExplore, July 28 2020
paper
Avoiding COVID-19: Aerosol Guidelines
Matthew Evans, medRxiv, June 5 2020
paper preprint
Multiscale 3-dimensional pathology findings of COVID-19 diseased lung using high-resolution cleared tissue microscopy
Guang Li et al, bioRxiv, April 20, 2020
paper preprint
Mathematical analysis on the dynamics of COVID-19 in India using SIR Epidemic Model
Zargar and Khanday, Mapana Journal of Sciences, August 6 2020
paper
COVID-19 SimBiology SEIR Model Examples
Fulden Buyukozturk, MATLAB File Exchange, May 29 2020
Long-term forecasting of the COVID-19 epidemic
University College London, January 15 2022
forecast
Automated COVID-19 and Heart Failure Detection Using DNA Pattern Technique with Cough Sounds
Mehmet Ali Kobat et al, Diagnostics, October 22 2021
paper
Machine learning detects SARS-CoV-2 and variants rapidly on DNA aptamer metasurfaces
Hulya Torun et al, medRxiv, August 8 2021
paper preprint
Characterizing long COVID in an international cohort: 7 months of symptoms and their impact
Hannah E. Davis et al, EClinical Medicine, July 15 2021
paper
Data-driven estimation of COVID-19 community prevalence through wastewater-based epidemiology
Xuan Li et al, Science of the Total Environment, October 2021
paper
Compartmental Model Suggests Importance of Innate Immune Response to COVID‑19 Infection in Rhesus Macaques
Ericka Mochan et al, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, May 26 2021
paper
Modeling the cardiac response to hemodynamic changes associated with COVID-19: a computational study
Luca Dede et al, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering,
April 15 2021
paper
水疱性口炎病毒重组的单剂量——ΔG-spike疫苗provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge
Yfat Yahalom-Ronen et al, Nature Communications,
December 16 2020
paper
Seismic evidence of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: a case study from eastern Sicily (Italy)
Andrea Cannata et al, EGU: Solid Earth, February 2 2021
paper
Principal Component Analysis Applications in COVID-19 Genome Sequence Studies
Bo Wang and Lin Jiang, Cognitive Computation, January 13 2021
paper
Comparative cost-effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies in the USA: a modelling study
Zhanwei Du et al, The Lancet: Public Health, February 4 2021
paper
Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Classification Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity
Neha Goswami et al, bioRxiv, December 12 2020
paper preprint
The effect of weather data on the spread of COVID-19 in Jordan
Eman Abdelhafez et al, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, January 9 2021
paper
Design of 3D-printable nasopharyngeal swabs in MATLAB for COVID-19 testing
Yilun Sun et al, Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, September 9 2020
paper
Automated subject-specific mask design and tissue loading evaluation framework using GIBBON
Kevin Moerman, Twitter, April 2020
post andMATLAB code
Classification of Covid-19 Coronavirus, Pneumonia and Healthy Lungs in CT Scans Using Q-Deformed Entropy and Deep Learning Features
Ali Hasan et al, Entropy, April 2020
paper
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic model
Sarbaz Khoshnaw et al, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, September 2020
paper
First-wave COVID-19 transmissability and severity in China outside Hubei after control measures, and second-wave scenario planning: a modelling impact assessment
Kathy Leung et al, The Lancet, April 8, 2020
paper
A COVID-19 Epidemiological Model for Community and Policy Maker Use
Alex De Visscher, Concordia University, arXiv, March 19, 2020
paper preprint with model code
The math behind epidemics
Alison Hill, Physics Today, November 1 2020
paper,MATLAB code
Influence of wind and relative humidity on the social distancing effectiveness to prevent COVID-19 airborne transmission: A numerical study
Yu Feng et al, Journal of Aerosol Science, September 2020
paper
How to determine when COVID-19 pool testing will be most effective
Behind the Headlines, mathworks.com, August 6 2020
blog post
An Intensive Push to Make Ventilators for the
COVID-19 Pandemic
Cambridge Consultants, UK
A review of open source ventilators for COVID-19 and future pandemics
Joshua M. Pearce, F1000Research, March 30 2020
paper andMATLAB code for the OxyGEN project
La Inteligencia Artificial y el Machine Learning en los Respiradores Contra el Coronavirus [Spanish]
Ignacio Ozcariz El雷达de la Georealidad 6 4月il 2020
article
COVID-19 Emergency Ventilator
Imperial College London
design,JamVent evaluation of performance
A Simulated Single Ventilator / Dual Patient Ventilation Strategy for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome during COVID-19 pandemic
Jose A. Solis-Lemus et al, medRxiv, April 7, 2020
paper preprint
Modelling and Optimisation of Mechanical Ventilation for Critically Ill Patient
Anup Das, University of Exeter, 2012
Ph.D. thesis
Pressure - Volume Controlled Mechanical Ventilator: Modeling and Simulation
Fikret YALÇINKAY, 9th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ELECO), 2015
paper
The BathRC model: a method to estimate flow restrictor size for dual ventilation of dissimilar patients
Andrew Plummer et al, medRxiv, April 17 2020
paper preprint andGitHub repo
通风机与闭环控制在较低的例子Cost Hardware
Steve Miller, GitHub, April 2020
GitHub repo with Simulink and Simscape models
Neonatal Ventilator Modeling using Simulink
Ravali K, GitHub, April 2020
GitHub repo with Simulink and Simscape models
Artificial Ventilation Simulator
Jakub R'afl, Czech Technical University in Prague, 2008
Masters thesis
A Novel Methodology for the Design of a Portable Ventilator
Subha Hency Jose P. et al, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE), November 2019
paper
Medical Ventilator with Lung Model (Simscape Example)
Positive-pressure medical ventilator system that models the lung using Translational Mechanical Converter (MA), which converts moist air pressure into translational motion.
Simscape model
Modelling and Simulation of Pressure Controlled Mechanical Ventilation System
Noman Q. Al-Naggar, Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering (JBiSE), 2015
paper