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Quantifying the social distancing privilege gap: a longitudinal study of smartphone movement

2020-05-08 public and global health Title + abstract only
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BackgroundIn response to the coronavirus pandemic, social distancing became a widely deployed countermeasure in March 2020. We examined whether healthier and wealthier places more successfully implemented social distancing. MethodsMobile device location data were used to quantify declines in movement by county (n=2,633) in the United States of America, comparing April 15-17 (n=65,544,268 traces) to baseline of February 17 - March 7. Negative binomial regression was used to estimate gradients of...

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