September 15, 2020

Social Disadvantage, Politics, and SARS-CoV-2 Trends: A County-Level Analysis of United States Data

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice

Keywords (Tags): geographic spread, USA

• Increasing case counts of SARS-CoV-2 during June 2020 were associated at the US county level with being a metropolitan area (250,000-1 million population), having a higher percentage of Black residents, and a 10-point or greater Republican victory in 2016.

Mourad et al. (Sept 11, 2020). Social Disadvantage, Politics, and SARS-CoV-2 Trends: A County-Level Analysis of United States Data. Clinical Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1374