{"id":8070,"date":"2020-07-09T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:58:44","slug":"spatiotemporal-characteristics-of-covid-19-epidemic-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/spatiotemporal-characteristics-of-covid-19-epidemic-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatiotemporal Characteristics of COVID-19 Epidemic in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 incidence significantly decreased in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">early April in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">counties i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">northeastern US\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(estimated weekly percentage change<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0-16.6%), but\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">continued\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">increasing in the Midwest<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(+13.2%)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, South\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(+5.6%)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and West Regions (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">+<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5.7%).<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There was a h<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">igher\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">likelihood of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">clustering and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hig<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">h<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">er\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">incidence of COVID-19 in metropolitan\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0rural counties, counties closest to core airports,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">most populous counties, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">counties with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">highest proportion of racial\/ethnic minority\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">populations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. However, geographic differences in incidence have\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">decreased\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">since early April.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wang et al. (July\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">8,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Spatiotemporal Characteristics of COVID-19 Epidemic in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa934\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa934<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 incidence significantly decreased in\u00a0early April in\u00a0counties in\u00a0the\u00a0northeastern US\u00a0(estimated weekly percentage change:\u00a0-16.6%), but\u00a0continued\u00a0increasing in the Midwest\u00a0(+13.2%), South\u00a0(+5.6%)\u00a0and West Regions (+5.7%).\u00a0There was a higher\u00a0likelihood of\u00a0clustering and\u00a0higher\u00a0incidence of COVID-19 in metropolitan\u00a0compared to\u00a0rural counties, counties closest to core airports,\u00a0in the\u00a0most populous counties, and\u00a0in\u00a0counties with\u00a0the\u00a0highest proportion of racial\/ethnic minority\u00a0populations. However, geographic differences in incidence have\u00a0decreased\u00a0since early April.\u00a0\u00a0 Wang et&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/spatiotemporal-characteristics-of-covid-19-epidemic-in-the-united-states\/\">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-8070","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\/8070","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=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}