While pandemic waves are often studied on the national scale, they typically are not
distributed evenly within countries. This study presents a novel approach to analyzing the …

Hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) are essential for providing emergency medical
services, yet often overwhelmed due to increasing healthcare demand. Current methods for …

Mexico is among the five countries with the largest number of reported deaths from COVID-
19 disease, and the mortality rates associated to infections are heterogeneous in the country …

Understanding the evolution of an epidemic is essential to implement timely and efficient
preventive measures. The availability of epidemiological data at a fine spatio‐temporal scale …

While pandemic waves are often studied on the national scale, they typically are not
distributed evenly within countries. This paper employs a novel approach to analyze the …

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, governments and academia have made tremendous efforts
to predict the course of the pandemic and implement prevention measures by monitoring …

During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, governments and public health authorities collected
massive amounts of data on daily confirmed positive cases and incidence rates. These data …

Pernambuco, a northeastern Brazilian state, suffered significantly during the COVID-19
pandemic. The incidence, mortality, and fatality rates were incredibly high; these outcomes …

This paper focuses on clustering the COVID-19 death rates reported in Europe and the
United States. Several methods have been developed to cluster such functional data …

Abstract The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has infected and killed millions
of people internationally. This work uses k-means clustering and a time series k-means …