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Conjunction Of Factors Impacting The 2019-2020 Flu Season In The Us, Yichen Wang
Conjunction Of Factors Impacting The 2019-2020 Flu Season In The Us, Yichen Wang
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021
The 2019-2020 flu season is regarded as one of the most serious ones in decades. Previous researchers usually studied the effects of different factors on seasonal flu separately instead of their conjugate impact, so we wanted to find how multiple factors combine to affect the spread of influenza in the 2019-2020 flu season in America. We chose types of virus (A and B), environmental factors (temperature, precipitation, relative humidity), population density, and influenza vaccination status for different age groups which are statewide data containing monthly information from Sep. 2019 to May 2020. By principal component analysis, we could see the …