COVID-19

Scientists and engineers worldwide are rising to battle the COVID-19 crisis. Here are some examples of their work, including epidemiological analysis, diagnostics, and ventilator models.

Research and Development

Ventilator Resources

COVID-19 Research and Development with MATLAB and Simulink

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

Differential Effects of Intervention Timing on COVID-19 Spread in the United States

Sen Pei et al, medRxiv, May 20 2020
paper preprint, NYTimes reference, GitHub repo

Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Mobilization of Assessments in COVID-19-like Pandemics: A Case Study for Early Flattening of the Curve

Simsek and Kantarci, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 14 2020
paper and Cleve's MATLAB simulator link

Individualized System for Augmenting Ventilator Efficacy (iSAVE): A Rapidly deployable system to expand ventilator capacity

Shriya Srinivasan et al, bioRxiv, March 29 2020
paper preprint

Automatic Identification of SARS Coronavirus using Compression-Complexity Measures

Karthi Balasubramanian et al,bioRxiv, March 27 2020
paper preprint and MATLAB code

Rapid community-driven development of a SARS-CoV-2 tissue simulator

Yafei Wang, bioRxiv, April 2 2020
paper preprint

Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread

Joshua S. Weitz et al, Nature, May 7 2020
paper and MATLAB code

fitVirusCOVID19

Milan Batista, MATLAB File Exchange, March 2020
MATLAB function

Covid-19: Testing Inequality in New York City

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé et al, National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2020
working paper

SimCOVID: An Open-Source Simulation Program for the COVID-19 Outbreak

Ismael Abdulrahman, April 2020
paper preprint with MATLAB and Simulink code

To mask or not to mask: Modeling the potential for face mask use by the general public to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic

Steffen E. Eikenberry et al, medRxiv, April 6 2020
paper preprint

Short-range airborne route dominates exposure of respiratory infection during close contact

Wenzhao Chen et al, ScienceDirect - Building and Environment, June 2020
paper

COVID-19: Predictive Mathematical Models for the Number of Deaths in South Korea, Italy, Spain, France, UK, Germany, and USA

Athanasios S. Fokas et al, ScienceAdvances, May 12 2020
paper preprint

A model based study on the dynamics of COVID-19: Prediction and control

Manotosh Mandal et al, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, May 10 2020
paper

Rare and extreme events: the case of COVID-19 pandemic

Machado & Lopez, Nonlinear Dynamics, May 16 2020
paper

Ultra-Low-Cost Integrated Silicon-based Transducer for On-Site, Genetic Detection of Pathogens

Estefania Nunez-Bajo et al, bioRxiv, March 25 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

Applying chemical reaction transition theory to predict the latent

Peng Xu, medRxiv, February 25, 2020
paper preprint

Dynamic causal modelling of COVID-19

Karl J Friston et al, arXiv, April 9 2020
paper preprint and MATLAB SPM tools

Exercising caution in correlating COVID-19 incidence and mortality rates with BCG vaccination policies due to variable rates of SARS CoV-2 testing

Janine Hensel et al, medRxiv, April 11 2020
paper preprint

Deep Learning for Medical Imaging: COVID-19 Detection

Barath Narayanan, University of Dayton Research Institute
Deep Learning blog, March 18, 2020
blog post with MATLAB code

Second Version of a COVID-19 Simulator

Cleve Moler, Cleve's Corner, March 29, 2020
blog post and MATLAB code and app

TWIRLS, an automated topic-wise inference method based on massive literature, suggests a possible mechanism via ACE2 for the pathological changes in the human host after coronavirus infection

Xiaoyang Ji et al, bioRxiv, March 2 2020
paper preprint

Sequence analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genome reveals features important for vaccine design

Jacob Kames et al, bioRxiv, March 31 2020
paper preprint

Using early data to estimate the actual infection fatality ratio from COVID-19 in France

Lionel Roques et al, medRxiv, May 7 2020
paper preprint

2 COVID-19 Simulations

Eunok Yung’s Lab, Konkuk University, May 2020
MATLAB web apps

Battling COVID-19 with disinfecting robots

Behind the Headlines, April 23, 2020
blog post

An SIR model with behavior

John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist, May 4 2020
blog with MATLAB code

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

Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia

Qun Li, M. Med et al, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), March 26, 2020
paper

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Ventilator Research and Development Resources

These MATLAB and Simulink examples and research papers may be useful for industry leaders and researchers who are working on a rapid design for ventilators. Some of these are foundational references.

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