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  • Computational Biology
  • Public Health Policy

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  • COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) poses a significant global health threat.
  • Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are crucial for managing pandemic spread.
  • Predictive modeling is essential for forecasting disease progression and informing policy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a predictive model for COVID-19 progression using Gated Recurrent Units (GRU).
  • To investigate the impact of NPIs on COVID-19 spread.
  • To identify optimal NPI strategies that minimize cases and mitigation costs.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) based predictive model.
  • Validated the model with case studies across multiple US states.
  • Employed a multi-population evolutionary algorithm with differential evolution (MPEA-DE) for optimization.

Main Results:

  • The GRU model achieved accurate COVID-19 forecasts across the US.
  • The MPEA-DE algorithm successfully identified optimal mitigation strategies.
  • MPEA-DE outperformed baseline strategies in minimizing COVID-19 cases and associated costs.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed GRU model provides accurate COVID-19 forecasting.
  • Optimized NPI strategies can effectively balance public health and economic considerations.
  • The MPEA-DE method offers a superior approach for identifying effective pandemic mitigation policies.