Examining the association between urban green space and viral transmission of COVID-19 during the early outbreak.

ABSTRACT: Even though exposure to urban green spaces (UGS) has physical and mental health benefits during COVID-19, whether visiting UGS will exacerbate viral transmission and what types of counties would be more impacted remain to be answered. In this research, we adopted mobile phone data to measure the county-level UGS visitation across the United States. We developed a Bayesian model to estimate the effective production number of the pandemic. To consider the spatial dependency, we applied the geographically weighted panel regression to estimate the association between UGS visitation and viral transmission. We found that visitations to UGS may be positively correlated with the viral spread in Florida, Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Especially noteworthy is that the s

SUBMITTER: Zhai W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9340055 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature