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On the cover: The rising in the popularity of big data, artificial intelligence, and simulation technologies has opened up new opportunities for the development of our society. The close integration of real and artificial societies has become a trend, bringing in novel concepts such as parallel society and metaverse. The artificial society system describes, predicts, and guides the real society system, in a closed-loop, iterative, and spiral-rising way, forming a new mode of social operation driven by Data-AI-Simulation techniques. In the future, with the further development of interdisciplinary cooperation and the continuous advancement of technologies, living in metaverse is within reach. |
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Position: Home > issue > September 13, 2022 Volume 3, Issue 5 |
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Excess mortality rather than case fatality rate is a superior indicator to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic |
Category: Commentary Download: PDF Figure Endnote |
Author: Guanhao He, Jianpeng Xiao, Ziqiang Lin, Wenjun Ma |
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Global distribution of estimated excess mortality rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the cumulative period 2020¨C2021
Since the end of 2021, the world has been grappling with a series of COVID-19 outbreaks caused by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Though the Omicron variant has a fatality rate that is lower than other variants and high vaccine coverage, more countries have lifted their non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and tried to combine natural infection and vaccine immunity to achieve herd immunity, so as to coexist with the virus.

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