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    • Computational Biology
    • Public Health

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    • The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant global healthcare strain.
    • Population-based analyses are crucial for evaluating mitigation and treatment strategies.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To design a computational algorithm for estimating the time-delay between peak COVID-19 infections and associated mortality.
    • To develop a metric for measuring the daily case-fatality ratio (D-CFR).

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized daily COVID-19 infection and death rate data from the US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) from January 2020 to April 2021.
    • Applied a Savitzky-Golay filter for time-series data smoothing and a custom inflection point algorithm to identify peaks and calculate time-delays.
    • Assessed the impact of filter window size and line-fitting length on time-delay calculations.

    Main Results:

    • Filter window size did not significantly impact time-delay calculations (p = 0.99).
    • Fitting-line length (p < 0.001) and time-delay length (p < 0.01) significantly affected results across three infection outbreaks.
    • A peak D-CFR of approximately 7% was observed during the initial outbreak, followed by a significant decreasing trend (p < 0.001) starting 2.5 months post-peak.

    Conclusions:

    • A novel computational method was established to quantify the time-delay between peak COVID-19 infections and deaths.
    • A new metric for approximating the continuous D-CFR was developed, demonstrating a declining trend over the study period.