Analysis of COVID-19 first wave in the US based on demographic, mobility, and environmental variables

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Main Authors: Spiller, Dario, Santin, Gabriele, Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Lucchini, Lorenzo, Gallotti, Riccardo, Lake, Brennan, Ullo, Silvia Liberata, Saux, Bertrand Le, Lepri, Bruno
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author Spiller, Dario
Santin, Gabriele
Sebastianelli, Alessandro
Lucchini, Lorenzo
Gallotti, Riccardo
Lake, Brennan
Ullo, Silvia Liberata
Saux, Bertrand Le
Lepri, Bruno
author_facet Spiller, Dario
Santin, Gabriele
Sebastianelli, Alessandro
Lucchini, Lorenzo
Gallotti, Riccardo
Lake, Brennan
Ullo, Silvia Liberata
Saux, Bertrand Le
Lepri, Bruno
contents COVID-19 had a strong and disruptive impact on our society, and yet further analyses on most relevant factors explaining the spread of the pandemic are needed. Interdisciplinary studies linking epidemiological, mobility, environmental, and socio-demographic data analysis can help understanding how historical conditions, concurrent social policies and environmental factors impacted on the evolution of the pandemic crisis. This work deals with a regression analysis linking COVID-19 mortality to socio-demographic, mobility, and environmental data in the US during the first half of 2020, i.e., during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave. This study can provide very useful insights about risk factors enhancing mortality rates before non-pharmaceutical interventions or vaccination campaigns took place. Our cross-sectional ecological regression analysis demonstrates that, when considering the entire US area, the socio-demographic variables globally play the most important role with respect to environmental and mobility variables in describing COVID-19 mortality. Compared to the complete generalized linear model considering all socio-demographic, mobility, and environmental data, the regression based only on socio-demographic data provides a better approximation and proves to be a better explanatory model when compared to the mobility-based and environmental-based models. However, when looking at single entries within each of the three groups, we see that the mobility data can become relevant descriptive predictors at local scale, as in New Jersey where the time spent at work is one of the most relevant explanatory variables, while environmental data play contradictory roles.
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spellingShingle Analysis of COVID-19 first wave in the US based on demographic, mobility, and environmental variables
Spiller, Dario
Santin, Gabriele
Sebastianelli, Alessandro
Lucchini, Lorenzo
Gallotti, Riccardo
Lake, Brennan
Ullo, Silvia Liberata
Saux, Bertrand Le
Lepri, Bruno
Physics and Society
COVID-19 had a strong and disruptive impact on our society, and yet further analyses on most relevant factors explaining the spread of the pandemic are needed. Interdisciplinary studies linking epidemiological, mobility, environmental, and socio-demographic data analysis can help understanding how historical conditions, concurrent social policies and environmental factors impacted on the evolution of the pandemic crisis. This work deals with a regression analysis linking COVID-19 mortality to socio-demographic, mobility, and environmental data in the US during the first half of 2020, i.e., during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave. This study can provide very useful insights about risk factors enhancing mortality rates before non-pharmaceutical interventions or vaccination campaigns took place. Our cross-sectional ecological regression analysis demonstrates that, when considering the entire US area, the socio-demographic variables globally play the most important role with respect to environmental and mobility variables in describing COVID-19 mortality. Compared to the complete generalized linear model considering all socio-demographic, mobility, and environmental data, the regression based only on socio-demographic data provides a better approximation and proves to be a better explanatory model when compared to the mobility-based and environmental-based models. However, when looking at single entries within each of the three groups, we see that the mobility data can become relevant descriptive predictors at local scale, as in New Jersey where the time spent at work is one of the most relevant explanatory variables, while environmental data play contradictory roles.
title Analysis of COVID-19 first wave in the US based on demographic, mobility, and environmental variables
topic Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14649