COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Since the start of the pandemic, some U.S. communities have faced record storms, fires, and floods. Communities have confronted the increased challenge of curbing the spread of COVID-19 amid evacuation orders and short-term displacement that result from hazards. This raises the question of whether disasters, evacuations, and displacements have resulted in above-average infection rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigates the relationship between disaster intensity, sheltering-in-place, evacuation-related mobility, and contagion following Hurricane Zeta in Southeastern Louisiana and The Wildfires in Napa and Sonoma Counties, California, known as the Glass Fire. We draw on data from the county subdivision level and mapped and aggregated tallies of Facebook user movement from

SUBMITTER: Page-Tan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8747941 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature