Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

July 7, 2020

A County-Level Susceptibility Index and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality in the United States A Socioecological Study

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  • [Preprint, not peer-reviewed] By linking county-level sociodemographic, health, and environmental metrics to county-level COVID-19 mortality, Khan et al. find that COVID-19 deaths per capita were significantly higher in rural, vulnerable counties (55.8 deaths per 100,000 people) than in urban, diverse counties (32.2 per 100,000) at 76 days since the first case. Their analysis included 867 counties with 5 or more deaths due to COVID-19.  

Khan et al. (July 6, 2020). A County-Level Susceptibility Index and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality in the United States A Socioecological Study. Pre-print downloaded from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.04.20146084