Corona and coffee on your commute: a spatial analysis of COVID-19 mortality and commuting flows in England in 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to implement lockdown policies to curb the spread of the disease. These policies explicitly encouraged homeworking, hence reducing the number of commuters with the implicit assumption that restricting peoples' movement reduces risk of infection for travellers and other people in their areas of residence and work. Yet, the spatial interrelation of different areas has been rarely addressed both in the public discourse and in early accounts of the various consequences of COVID-19.

Methods

Our study proposes a spatial analysis of the association between commuting flows and COVID-19 mortality in England between March and June 2020, using a range of publicly available area-level data. To account for spatial correlation, we used a

SUBMITTER: Francetic I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8083223 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature