{"id":6092,"date":"2020-04-16T13:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2021-03-09T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:59:19","slug":"rapid-surveillance-of-covid-19-in-the-united-states-using-a-prospective-space-time-scan-statistic-detecting-and-evaluating-emerging-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/16\/rapid-surveillance-of-covid-19-in-the-united-states-using-a-prospective-space-time-scan-statistic-detecting-and-evaluating-emerging-clusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid surveillance of COVID-19 in the United States using a prospective space-time scan statistic: Detecting and evaluating emerging clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors use prospective space-time scan statistic methodology to detect emerging clusters of COVID-19 in the US and at the county level for 2 distinct time periods, and emphasize the importance of focusing surveillance on emerging and active clusters during epidemics.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These timely results can inform public health officials and decision-makers about locations to prioritize for targeted interventions, resource allocation, rapid testing, and for implementation of stricter quarantines and travel bans.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Desjardins et al. (Apr 2020). Rapid surveillance of COVID-19 in the United States using a prospective space-time scan statistic: Detecting and evaluating emerging clusters. Applied Geography. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.apgeog.2020.102202\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.apgeog.2020.102202<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors use prospective space-time scan statistic methodology to detect emerging clusters of COVID-19 in the US and at the county level for 2 distinct time periods, and emphasize the importance of focusing surveillance on emerging and active clusters during epidemics.\u00a0 These timely results can inform public health officials and decision-makers about locations to prioritize&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/16\/rapid-surveillance-of-covid-19-in-the-united-states-using-a-prospective-space-time-scan-statistic-detecting-and-evaluating-emerging-clusters\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}