ALeRT-COVID: Attentive Lockdown-awaRe Transfer Learning for Predicting COVID-19 Pandemics in Different Countries

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    There are several limitations of our research. First, the lockdown measure was modeled as a binary variable representing the lockdown is on or off. However, different countries conducted different levels of the lockdown. Even within the same country, such as United States, different states had different lockdown measures. A more fine-grained quantification of the lockdown measures may enhance the prediction performance. In addition, more related information could be introduced to the model such as the number of recovered cases, death cases, available healthcare resources, etc. Although the proposed method aims at predicting the cumulative case numbers, the prediction targets can be conveniently changed to the number of recovery or death cases. In conclusion, our predictions provide valuable data-driven insights for better understanding the current situation and could help policy makers and health authorities make plans to manage the future situation.

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