Community vulnerability and mobility: What matters most in spatio-temporal modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic?

ABSTRACT: Community vulnerability is widely viewed as an important aspect to consider when modeling disease. Although COVID-19 does disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, human behavior as measured by community mobility is equally influential in understanding disease spread. In this research, we seek to understand which of four composite measures perform best in explaining disease spread and mortality, and we explore the extent to which mobility account for variance in the outcomes of interest. We compare two community mobility measures, three composite measures of community vulnerability, and one composite measure that combines vulnerability and human behavior to assess their relative feasibility in modeling the US COVID-19 pandemic. Extensions - via temporally dependent fixed effect coe

SUBMITTER: Carroll R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8434688 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature