{"id":9052,"date":"2020-08-14T11:37:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:38:01","slug":"trends-in-number-and-distribution-of-covid-19-hotspot-counties-united-states-march-8-july-15-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/trends-in-number-and-distribution-of-covid-19-hotspot-counties-united-states-march-8-july-15-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Number and Distribution of COVID-19 Hotspot Counties \u2014 United States, March 8\u2013July 15, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"46\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">US data from January 22-July 15 were analyzed to detect\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hotspot<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0counties. No hotspots were identified prior to March 7<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, but\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">818 counties\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">corresponding to 80% of the US population<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">met\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hotspot\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">criteria for one or more days<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0between from March 8 to July 15<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The number\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hotspot counties peaked in early April, decreased,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">then increased again in late June.\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><span data-contrast=\"none\">Oster et al. (Aug 14, 2020). Trends in Number and Distribution of COVID-19 Hotspot Counties \u2014 United States, March 8\u2013July 15, 2020. MMWR.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6933e2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6933e2<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>US data from January 22-July 15 were analyzed to detect\u00a0\u201chotspot\u201d\u00a0counties. No hotspots were identified prior to March 7, but\u00a0818 counties\u00a0(corresponding to 80% of the US population)\u00a0met\u00a0hotspot\u00a0criteria for one or more days\u00a0between from March 8 to July 15.\u00a0The number\u00a0of\u00a0hotspot counties peaked in early April, decreased,\u00a0and\u00a0then increased again in late June.\u00a0\u00a0 Oster et al. (Aug 14, 2020)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/trends-in-number-and-distribution-of-covid-19-hotspot-counties-united-states-march-8-july-15-2020\/\">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":[24],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052","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=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9053,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}