Infection rate models for COVID-19: Model risk and public health news sentiment exposure adjustments

• Ioannis Chalkiadakis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ic14@hw.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-9836

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• Hongxuan Yan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Centre for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Gareth W. Peters,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Pavel V. Shevchenko

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Center for Econometrics and Business Analytics, St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8104-8716

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