Urban environmental and population factors as determinants of COVID-19 severity: A spatially-resolved probabilistic modeling approach.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 is caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. It has reshaped the world with the way our communities interact, people work, commute, and spend their leisure time. While different mitigation solutions for controlling COVID-19 virus transmission have already been established, global models that would explain and predict the impact of urban environments on the case fatality ratio CFR of COVID-19 (defined as the number of deaths divided by the number of cases over a time window) are missing. Here, with readily available data from public sources, we study the CFR of the coronavirus for 118 locations (city zip-codes, city boroughs, and cities) worldwide to identify the links between the CFR and outdoor, indoor and personal urban factors. We show tha

SUBMITTER: Roxon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12274012 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature