Correlations between COVID-19 and dengue obtained via the study of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia during the 2020s

• Autores: Bergero, Paula Elena; Schaposnik, Laura P.; Wang, Grace
• Año de publicación: 2023
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: COVID-19; DENGUE; NEURAL NETWORK
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

A dramatic increase in the number of outbreaks of dengue has recently been reported, and climate change is likely to extend the geographical spread of the disease. In this context, this paper shows how a neural network approach can incorporate dengue and COVID-19 data as well as external factors (such as social behaviour or climate variables), to develop predictive models that could improve our knowledge and provide useful tools for health policy makers. Through the use of neural networks with different social and natural parameters, in this paper we define a Correlation Model through which we show that the number of cases of COVID-19 and dengue have very similar trends. We then illustrate the relevance of our model by extending it to a Long short-term memory model (LSTM) that incorporates both diseases, and using this to estimate dengue infections via COVID-19 data in countries that lack sufficient dengue data.
Fil: Bergero, Paula Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; Argentina
Fil: Schaposnik, Laura P.. University of Illinois; Estados Unidos
Fil: Wang, Grace. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Estados Unidos