Cell Phone Activity in Categories of Places and Associations With Growth in Cases of COVID-19 in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It is unknown how well cell phone location data portray social distancing strategies or if they are associated with the incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in a particular geographical area.

Objective

To determine if cell phone location data are associated with the rate of change in new COVID-19 cases by county across the US.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study incorporated publicly available county-level daily COVID-19 case data from January 22, 2020, to May 11, 2020, and county-level daily cell phone location data made publicly available by Google. It examined the daily cases of COVID-19 per capita and daily estimates of cell phone activity compared with the baseline (where baseline was defined as the median value for th

SUBMITTER: Sehra ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7489380 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature