Socio-economic disparities in social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Eliminating disparities in the burden of COVID-19 requires equitable access to control measures across socio-economic groups. Limited research on socio-economic differences in mobility hampers our ability to understand whether inequalities in social distancing are occurring during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. To assess how mobility patterns have varied across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, and identify associations with socio-economic factors of populations. We used anonymized mobility data from tens of millions of devices to measure the speed and depth of social distancing at the county level between February and May 2020. Using linear mixed models, we assessed the associations between social distancing and socio-economic variables, including the proportion of people below th

SUBMITTER: Garnier R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7668753 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature