disease transmission dynamics. Integrated Regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost models into an ensemble forecasting approach. Achieved up to 96% agreement for 7-day forecasts for COVID-19 across counties in SC. Framework supports real-time epidemic surveillance and early intervention decisions. The approach is generalizable to other infectious diseases and finer geographic scales for real-time outbreak monitoring and response.
Hossain et al. (Sun,) studied this question.