Impact of excluding nursing home COVID-19 cases when assessing the relationship between county-level social distancing behavior and COVID-19 cases across the US during the early phase of the pandemic, February 2020-May 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To conduct a cross-sectional nationwide study examining how exclusion of nursing home COVID-19 cases influences the association between county level social distancing behavior and COVID-19 cases throughout the US during the early phase of the pandemic (February 2020-May 2020).

Methods

Using county-level COVID-19 data and social distancing metrics from tracked mobile devices, we investigated the impact social distancing had on a county's total COVID-19 cases (cases/100,000 people) between when the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in a county and May 31st, 2020 when most statewide social distancing measures were lifted, representing the pandemic's exponential growth phase. We created a mixed-effects negative binomial model to assess how implementation of social dis

SUBMITTER: Tran P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8631610 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature