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Journal Article
Social, economic, and environmental factors influencing the basic reproduction number of COVID-19 across countries
2021
Overview
To assess whether the basic reproduction number (R0) of COVID-19 is different across countries and what national-level demographic, social, and environmental factors other than interventions characterize initial vulnerability to the virus.
We fit logistic growth curves to reported daily case numbers, up to the first epidemic peak, for 58 countries for which 16 explanatory covariates are available. This fitting has been shown to robustly estimate R0 from the specified period. We then use a generalized additive model (GAM) to discern both linear and nonlinear effects, and include 5 random effect covariates to account for potential differences in testing and reporting that can bias the estimated R0.
We found that the mean R0 is 1.70 (S.D. 0.57), with a range between 1.10 (Ghana) and 3.52 (South Korea). We identified four factors-population between 20-34 years old (youth), population residing in urban agglomerates over 1 million (city), social media use to organize offline action (social media), and GINI income inequality-as having strong relationships with R0, across countries. An intermediate level of youth and GINI inequality are associated with high R0, (n-shape relationships), while high city population and high social media use are associated with high R0. Pollution, temperature, and humidity did not have strong relationships with R0 but were positive.
Countries have different characteristics that predispose them to greater intrinsic vulnerability to COVID-19. Studies that aim to measure the effectiveness of interventions across locations should account for these baseline differences in social and demographic characteristics.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Basic Reproduction Number - statistics & numerical data
/ Computer and Information Sciences
/ COVID-19
/ Ecology
/ Humans
/ Income - statistics & numerical data
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Research and Analysis Methods
/ SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification
/ Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
/ Social Media - statistics & numerical data
/ Urban Population - statistics & numerical data
/ Viruses
/ Zoology
