Title
Identifying second wave and new variants of covid-19 from shannon entropy in global pandemic data
Date Issued
29 July 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In most countries that have been affected by the arrival of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (or Covid-19 in short), the surveillance of daily state of management of pandemic is reflected on the histogram of number of confirmed cases versus time (days or weeks). While at the first phases of pandemic is seen an exponential morphology, the public health operators target to flat the peak, fact that might to reflect the success of the done efforts such as quarantine, curfew and social distancing. In this paper is investigated the morphology of data of new cases in terms of Shannon's entropy. The resulting entropy distributions matches well to the Italian case where presumably the peaks of histogram can be to some extent interpreted as the effect of the presence of two different strains circulating in he country. Therefore, the Shannon's entropy approach can be projected to real data in order to examine the characteristics of pandemic under the assumption that human activity still in pandemic times can trigger subsequent waves.
Start page
289
End page
293
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85114466021
ISBN of the container
9781665400961
Conference
Proceedings of the 2021 5th World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems Security and Sustainability, WorldS4 2021
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