Identification of Thresholds on Population Density for Understanding Transmission of COVID‐19

• Published in: Geohealth Vol. 6; no. 9; pp. e2021GH000449 - n/a
• Main Authors: Jamal, Yusuf, Gangwar, Mayank, Usmani, Moiz, Adams, Alison E., Wu, Chang‐Yu, Nguyen, Thanh H., Colwell, Rita, Jutla, Antarpreet
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2022; John Wiley and Sons Inc; American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Subjects: Coronaviruses; COVID-19 vaccines; COVID‐19; Disease transmission; Economic indicators; Epidemics; General or Miscellaneous; Geohealth; Human populations; Human settlements; Infectious diseases; Influenza; Land area; logistic regression; Population density; Probability; Public Health; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; The COVID‐19 pandemic: linking health, society and environment; threshold; United States > US

Pathways of transmission of coronavirus (COVID‐19) disease in the human population are still emerging. However, empirical observations suggest that dense human settlements are the most adversely impacted, corroborating a broad consensus that human‐to‐human transmission is a key mechanism for the rap...