{"id":5847,"date":"2020-04-10T14:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:15:33","slug":"geographic-differences-in-covid-19-cases-deaths-and-incidence-united-states-february-12-april-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/10\/geographic-differences-in-covid-19-cases-deaths-and-incidence-united-states-february-12-april-7-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographic Differences in COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Incidence \u2014 United States, February 12\u2013April 7, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This MMWR report includes geographic differences in COVID-19 cases, deaths, and changes in incidence in the US, with cumulative incidence ranging widely from 20.6 to 915.3 cases per 100,000 population. These differences likely reflect a combination of jurisdiction-specific epidemiologic and population-level factors, including 1) the timing of COVID-19 introductions; 2) population density; 3) age distribution and prevalence of underlying medical conditions among COVID-19 patients (1\u20133); 4) the timing and extent of community mitigation measures; 5) diagnostic testing capacity; and 6) public health reporting practices<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The article highlights the importance of monitoring jurisdiction-level numbers of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and changes in incidence to understand community risk and to make decisions about community mitigation, including social distancing, and strategic health care resource allocation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bialek et al. (Apr 10, 2020). Geographic Differences in COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Incidence \u2014 United States, February 12\u2013April 7, 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/pdfs\/mm6915e4-H.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/pdfs\/mm6915e4-H.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This MMWR report includes geographic differences in COVID-19 cases, deaths, and changes in incidence in the US, with cumulative incidence ranging widely from 20.6 to 915.3 cases per 100,000 population. These differences likely reflect a combination of jurisdiction-specific epidemiologic and population-level factors, including 1) the timing of COVID-19 introductions; 2) population density; 3) age distribution&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/10\/geographic-differences-in-covid-19-cases-deaths-and-incidence-united-states-february-12-april-7-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-5847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5847"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}