Effectiveness of the COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index in explaining COVID-19 deaths.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore the effectiveness of a COVID-19 specific social vulnerability index, we examined the relative importance of four COVID-19 specific themes and three general themes of the COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index (CCVI) in explaining COVID-19 mortality rates in Cook County, Illinois.

Methods

We counted COVID-19 death records from the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, geocoded incident addresses by census tracts, and appended census tracts' CCVI scores. Negative binomial regression and Random Forest were used to examine the relative importance of CCVI themes in explaining COVID-19 mortality rates.

Results

COVID-19 specific Themes 6 (High risk environments) and 4 (Epidemiological factors) were the most important in explaining COVID-19 mortality (i

SUBMITTER: An J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9539452 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature