Our new article titled “Population mobility and aging accelerate the outbreaks of COVID-19 in the Deep South: a county-level longitudinal analysis“, authored by Chengbo Zeng, Jiajia Zhang, Zhenlong Li, Xiaowen Sun, Xueying Yang, Bankole Olatosi, Sharon B Weissman, and Xiaoming Li, has been accepted for publication by Clinical Infectious Diseases (Impact Factor: 9.1).
We find that population mobility and aging at local areas contributed to the geospatial disparities in COVID-19 outbreaks among 418 counties in the Deep South. A significant interaction between mobility and proportion of older adults in predicting COVID-19 incidence was found. Effective disease control measures should be tailored to vulnerable communities.
