Association of stay-at-home orders and COVID-19 incidence and mortality in rural and urban United States: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined the association between stay-at-home order implementation and the incidence of COVID-19 infections and deaths in rural versus urban counties of the United States.

Design

We used an interrupted time-series analysis using a mixed effects zero-inflated Poisson model with random intercept by county and standardised by population to examine the associations between stay-at-home orders and county-level counts of daily new COVID-19 cases and deaths in rural versus urban counties between 22 January 2020 and 10 June 2020. We secondarily examined the association between stay-at-home orders and mobility in rural versus urban counties using Google Community Mobility Reports.

Interventions

Issuance of stay-at-home orders.

Primary and secondary outcome meas

SUBMITTER: Jiang DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8990263 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature