Mobility in Blue-Green Spaces Does Not Predict COVID-19 Transmission: A Global Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Mobility restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic ostensibly prevented the public from transmitting the disease in public places, but they also hampered outdoor recreation, despite the importance of blue-green spaces (e.g., parks and natural areas) for physical and mental health. We assess whether restrictions on human movement, particularly in blue-green spaces, affected the transmission of COVID-19. Our assessment uses a spatially resolved dataset of COVID-19 case numbers for 848 administrative units across 153 countries during the first year of the pandemic (February 2020 to February 2021). We measure mobility in blue-green spaces with planetary-scale aggregate and anonymized mobility flows derived from mobile phone tracking data. We then use machine learning forecast models and linear

SUBMITTER: Venter ZS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8656877 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature