Interactive dashboards to study relations between early COVID-19 outbreaks and human mobility trends

ABSTRACT

Outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, have led to the creation of social distancing and lockdown policies to reduce the spread of the virus. Consequently, public/private transportation services, schools, workplaces, and retail stores' operations were disrupted. We gather user mobility reports worldwide to learn impacts of early COVID-19 outbreaks on human mobility patterns and trends. Building time series of six types of activities tracked in the Google Community Mobility Reports (CMR), we develop visualization tools and interactive dashboards for linking mobility and COVID-19 infection data at different levels (from county- and state-level in the US, to country level for the rest of the world). We show that the relationship between mobility and COVID-19 infection changes over time, and therefore the stage of the pandemic is essentially important for understanding how containment policies can affect infections and deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2022 IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2022. All rights reserved.