Background Within 4 months of COVID-19 first being reported in the USA, it spread to every
state and to more than 90% of all counties. During this period, the US COVID-19 response …

On Jan 22, 2020, a day after the USA reported its first COVID-19 case, the Johns Hopkins
University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE) launched the first global …

Background In 2015, the Zika virus spread from Brazil throughout the Americas, posing an
unprecedented challenge to the public health community. During the epidemic, international …

Meteorological variables, such as the ambient temperature and humidity, play a well-established
role in the seasonal transmission of respiratory viruses and influenza in temperate …

The Zika epidemic in the Americas has challenged surveillance and control. As the
epidemic appears to be waning, it is unclear whether transmission is still ongoing, which is …

Background An unprecedented Zika virus epidemic occurred in the Americas during 2015-2016.
The size of the epidemic in conjunction with newly recognized health risks associated …

Mobile phone data provide a unique means to capture individual-level and population-level
movement patterns, which have become heavily relied upon to inform COVID-19 responses…

The Lancet considers Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus together. 2 On the same basis,
WHO has predicted that the virus will establish itself in all countries in the Americas except …

The introduction of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) represents an unprecedented interaction
between the road network and electricity grid. By replacing the traditional fuel source, petrol, …

Background Since the US reported its first COVID-19 case on January 21, 2020, the science
community has been applying various techniques to forecast incident cases and deaths. To …