Deep Learning-Derived Optimal Aviation Strategies to Control Pandemics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10888v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:35:09 GMT
• Title: Deep Learning-Derived Optimal Aviation Strategies to Control Pandemics
• Authors: Syed Rizvi, Akash Awasthi, Maria J. Pel\'aez, Zhihui Wang, Vittorio Cristini, Hien Van Nguyen, Prashant Dogra
• Abstract summary: COVID-19 pandemic has affected countries across the world, demanding drastic public health policies to mitigate the spread of infection. In this work, we investigated the impact of human mobility on COVID-19 infection dynamics at the global scale.
• Score: 13.952375733035428
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected countries across the world, demanding drastic public health policies to mitigate the spread of infection, leading to economic crisis as a collateral damage. In this work, we investigated the impact of human mobility (described via international commercial flights) on COVID-19 infection dynamics at the global scale. For this, we developed a graph neural network-based framework referred to as Dynamic Connectivity GraphSAGE (DCSAGE), which operates over spatiotemporal graphs and is well-suited for dynamically changing adjacency information. To obtain insights on the relative impact of different geographical locations, due to their associated air traffic, on the evolution of the pandemic, we conducted local sensitivity analysis on our model through node perturbation experiments. From our analyses, we identified Western Europe, North America, and Middle East as the leading geographical locations fueling the pandemic, attributed to the enormity of air traffic originating or transiting through these regions. We used these observations to identify tangible air traffic reduction strategies that can have a high impact on controlling the pandemic, with minimal interference to human mobility. Our work provides a robust deep learning-based tool to study global pandemics and is of key relevance to policy makers to take informed decisions regarding air traffic restrictions during future outbreaks.

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