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  • Real-time tracking of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is crucial for public awareness and policy decisions.
  • Multiple metrics, including new cases, deaths, and effective reproduction rate, are used to assess pandemic impact.
  • Evaluating these metrics together offers comprehensive insights for prevention and safety planning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce COVID-19 Spread Mapper, a unified framework for estimating and visualizing key COVID-19 metrics.
  • To quantify uncertainty in smoothed daily effective reproduction number, case rate, and death rate using log-linear models.
  • To analyze COVID-19 impact across various geographic resolutions and highlight the need for coordinated control efforts.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a unified framework using log-linear models for data analysis.
  • Estimation and quantification of uncertainty in smoothed daily effective reproduction number, case rate, and death rate.
  • Application of the framework to characterize COVID-19 impact at county, state, and country levels.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated variation in COVID-19 impact across different geographic resolutions.
  • Highlighted the necessity of harmonized strategies for pandemic control.
  • Provided an open-source online dashboard for real-time analysis and visualization of critical metrics.

Conclusions:

  • The COVID-19 Spread Mapper framework offers a robust method for evaluating pandemic metrics.
  • Real-time data visualization is essential for informed decision-making by the public and policymakers.
  • The open-source tool facilitates a harmonized approach to understanding and managing the COVID-19 pandemic.