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Harshvardhan Uppaluru1, Hossein Rastgoftar1
1Scalable Move and Resilient Traversability (SMART) Lab, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
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COVID-19 is a global health crisis that has had unprecedented, widespread impact on households across the United States and has been declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 by World Health Organization (WHO). According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the spread of COVID-19 occurs through person-to-person transmission i.e. close contact with infected people through contaminated surfaces and respiratory fluids carrying infectious virus. This paper presents a data-driven physics-based approach to analyze and predict the rapid growth and spread dynamics of the pandemic. Temporal and spatial conservation laws are used to model the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. We integrate quadratic programming and neural networks to learn the parameters and estimate the pandemic growth. The proposed prediction model is validated through finite-time estimation of the pandemic growth using the total number of cases, deaths and recoveries in the United States recorded from March 12, 2020 until October 1, 2021.
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