Back

Blacks/African Americans are 5 Times More Likely to Develop COVID-19: Spatial Modeling of New York City ZIP Code-level Testing Results

2020-05-19 epidemiology Title + abstract only
View on medRxiv
Show abstract

IntroductionThe population and spatial characteristics of COVID-19 infections are poorly understood, but there is increasing evidence that in addition to individual clinical factors, demographic, socioeconomic and racial characteristics play an important role. MethodsWe analyzed positive COVID-19 testing results counts within New York City ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTA) with Bayesian hierarchical Poisson spatial models using integrated nested Laplace approximations. ResultsSpatial clustering...

Predicted journal destinations

1
PLOS ONE
1737 training papers
Top 32% 21.4%
2
Clinical Infectious Diseases
219 training papers
Top 4% 6.2%
3
Scientific Reports
701 training papers
Top 58% 4.8%
4
BMC Medicine
155 training papers
Top 6% 3.7%
5
International Journal of Epidemiology
65 training papers
Top 2% 3.7%
6
Nature Communications
483 training papers
Top 29% 3.7%
7
Epidemiology and Infection
80 training papers
Top 3% 3.0%
8
Annals of Epidemiology
19 training papers
#1 3.0%
9
BMC Infectious Diseases
110 training papers
Top 4% 2.7%
10
American Journal of Epidemiology
54 training papers
Top 1% 2.7%
11
BMJ Open
553 training papers
Top 50% 1.9%
12
BMC Public Health
148 training papers
Top 17% 1.9%
13
JAMA Network Open
125 training papers
Top 10% 1.9%
14
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
124 training papers
Top 9% 1.5%
15
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
36 training papers
Top 0.5% 1.3%
16
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
137 training papers
Top 11% 1.3%
17
Frontiers in Public Health
135 training papers
Top 26% 1.1%
18
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
116 training papers
Top 23% 1.1%
19
European Journal of Epidemiology
36 training papers
Top 3% 1.1%
20
PLOS Medicine
95 training papers
Top 18% 0.9%
21
Eurosurveillance
77 training papers
Top 11% 0.9%
22
Journal of the American Heart Association
92 training papers
Top 12% 0.9%
23
Epidemics
96 training papers
Top 9% 0.9%
24
Frontiers in Medicine
99 training papers
Top 19% 0.9%
25
Thorax
29 training papers
Top 2% 0.9%
26
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
115 training papers
Top 21% 0.9%
27
Emerging Infectious Diseases
84 training papers
Top 17% 0.7%
28
Epidemiology
26 training papers
Top 3% 0.7%
29
Science
46 training papers
Top 8% 0.7%
30
Public Health
34 training papers
Top 7% 0.7%