Geographic Variations in Human Mobility Patterns during the First Six Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in California.

ABSTRACT: Human mobility influenced the spread of the COVID-19 virus, as revealed by the high spatiotemporal granularity location service data gathered from smart devices. We conducted time series clustering analysis to delineate the relationships between human mobility patterns (HMPs) and their social determinants in California (CA) using aggregated smart device tracking data from SafeGraph. We first identified four types of temporal patterns for five human mobility indicator changes by applying dynamic-time-warping self-organizing map clustering methods. We then performed an analysis of variance and linear discriminant analysis on the HMPs with 17 social, economic, and demographic variables. Asians, children under five, adults over 65, and individuals living below the poverty line were found to be

SUBMITTER: Li K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11444676 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature