Short-term Covid-19 forecast for latecomers.

Autor: Medeiros MC; Department of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Street A; Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Valladão D; Department of Industrial Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Vasconcelos G; Bank of Communications - BBM/BOCOM, Brazil., Zilberman E; Gávea Investimentos, Brazil.; Department of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of forecasting [Int J Forecast] 2022 Apr-Jun; Vol. 38 (2), pp. 467-488. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 13.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.09.013
Abstrakt: The number of new Covid-19 cases is still high in several countries, despite vaccination efforts. A number of countries are experiencing new and severe waves of infection. Therefore, the availability of reliable forecasts for the number of cases and deaths in the coming days is of fundamental importance. We propose a simple statistical method for short-term real-time forecasting of the number of Covid-19 cases and fatalities in countries that are latecomers-i.e., countries where cases of the disease started to appear some time after others. In particular, we propose a penalized LASSO regression model with an error correction mechanism to construct a model of a latecomer country in terms of other countries that were at a similar stage of the pandemic some days before. By tracking the number of cases in those countries, we use an adaptive rolling-window scheme to forecast the number of cases and deaths in the latecomer. We apply this methodology to 45 countries and we provide detailed results for four of them: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Portugal. We show that the methodology performs very well when compared to alternative methods. These forecasts aim to foster better short-run management of the healthcare system and can be applied not only to countries but also to different regions within a country. Finally, the modeling framework derived in the paper can be applied to other infectious diseases.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(© 2021 International Institute of Forecasters. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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