Associations between greenness and predicted COVID-19-like illness incidence in the United States and the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT: Green spaces may be protective against COVID-19 incidence. They may provide outdoor, ventilated, settings for physical and social activities and therefore decrease transmission risk. We examined the association between neighborhood greenness and COVID-19-like illness incidence using individual-level data.

Methods

The study population includes participants enrolled in the COVID Symptom Study smartphone application in the United Kingdom and the United States (March-November 2020). All participants were encouraged to report their current health condition and suspected risk factors for COVID-19. We used a validated symptom-based classifier that predicts COVID-19-like illness. We estimated the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), for each participant's reported neighborhood of

SUBMITTER: Chen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9916094 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature