BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated issues of poverty and food insecurity in New York City, and many residents experienced difficulty accessing available resources to help them get food on the table. Social media presents an opportunity to ...
In the quest to ensure adequate preparedness for health emergencies caused by infectious disease pandemics, there is a need for tools that can address the myriad relevant questions related to the spread and trajectory of pandemics. A hybrid intellige...
Molecular assays are critical tools for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. These assays have been extremely valuable during the COVID pandemic, used to guide both patient management and infection control strategies. Sustained transmission and unhi...
We propose a new theory of information-based voluntary social distancing in which people's responses to disease prevalence depend on the credibility of reported cases and fatalities and vary locally. We embed this theory into a new pandemic predictio...
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a powerful method that allows community surveillance to identify diseases/pandemic dynamics in a city, especially in metropolitan areas with high overpopulation. This study investigated the detection and quantif...
The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic brought forth an urgent need for an in-depth molecular understanding, organization, and data integration to expedite therapeutic and preventive strategies. An essential approac...
The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 has highlighted the need for intelligent methodologies in COVID-19 diagnosis. Clinicians face significant challenges due to the virus's fast transmission rate and the lack of reliable diagnostic tools. Although artifici...
BACKGROUND: Patient symptoms, crucial for disease progression and diagnosis, are often captured in unstructured clinical notes. Large language models (LLMs) offer potential advantages in extracting patient symptoms compared to traditional rule-based ...
BACKGROUND: Post-COVID conditions (PCC) have proven difficult to diagnose. In this retrospective observational study, we aimed to characterize the level of variation in PCC diagnoses observed across clinicians from a number of methodological angles a...
BACKGROUND: Infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus can cause coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and can also exacerbate the symptoms of Kawasaki disease (KD), an acute vasculitis that mostly affects children. This study used bioinformatics and machine le...