Past local government health spending was not correlated with COVID-19 control in US counties.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Wide variation in state and county health spending prior to 2020 enables tests of whether historically better state and locally funded counties achieved faster control over COVID-19 in the first 6 months of the pandemic in the Unites States prior to federal supplemental funding.

Objective

We used time-to-event and generalized linear models to examine the association between pre-pandemic state-level public health spending, county-level non-hospital health spending, and effective COVID-19 control at the county level. We include 2,775 counties that reported 10 or more COVID-19 cases between January 22, 2020, and July 19, 2020, in the analysis.

Main outcome measure

Control of COVID-19 was defined by: (i) elapsed time in days between the 10th case and the day of pe

SUBMITTER: Lamba S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8763410 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature