Geographical patterns of social cohesion drive disparities in early COVID infection hazard.

Autor: Thomas LJ; Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697., Huang P; Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.; Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697., Yin F; Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697., Xu J; Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697., Almquist ZW; Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.; Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.; Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.; Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.; eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195., Hipp JR; Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.; Department of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697., Butts CT; Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.; Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.; Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2022 Mar 22; Vol. 119 (12), pp. e2121675119. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 14.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2121675119
Abstrakt: The uneven spread of COVID-19 has resulted in disparate experiences for marginalized populations in urban centers. Using computational models, we examine the effects of local cohesion on COVID-19 spread in social contact networks for the city of San Francisco, finding that more early COVID-19 infections occur in areas with strong local cohesion. This spatially correlated process tends to affect Black and Hispanic communities more than their non-Hispanic White counterparts. Local social cohesion thus acts as a potential source of hidden risk for COVID-19 infection.
Databáze: MEDLINE