Use of Population Weighted Density Index for Coronavirus Spread in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Background: Understanding how population density affected the transmission of COVID-19 is vitally important, since crowded cities were the epicenters for the disease. Since human contact was the main cause of the spread, population-weighted densities have been shown to be a better measure than conventional densities, since the variation in density across subareas matters more than the density in the total area. Objectives: This study investigates the impact of population-weighted density and other demographics on the rate of COVID-19 spread in the United States. Methods: The study considers population-weighted density and many other demographics. The population-weighted density index is the weighted average of density across the tracts, where tracts are weighted by pop

SUBMITTER: Yuce H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11259180 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature