Shift in racial communities impacted by COVID-19 in California
Shift in racial communities impacted by COVID-19 in California
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DOI：
10.1136/jech-2020-215148
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发表时间：
2021-04-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Cuomo, Raphael E.
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作者：
Cuomo, Raphael E.
自加州记录首例COVID-19病例以来，疾病病例的地理空间分布随着时间的推移而波动。鉴于记录的种族差异，在该国其他地区，纵向收敛COVID-19率周围的种族groupswarrantsassessment. MethodsCounty级COVID-19的情况下，从约翰霍普金斯大学收集，种族分布从美国社区调查收集。计算自加州首次报告COVID-19以来每天的Pearson相关系数，并评估每个种族特定相关系数集的纵向分布的平稳性、线性趋势和指数趋势。大约100天后，COVID-19的分布与非洲裔美国人社区的分布最为相似。在该数据集中，每一天COVID-19的县级分布与加州的白色美国社区的分布呈负相关。讨论COVID-19在加州的地理空间分布越来越类似于该州内的非洲裔美国人社区。应进行进一步研究，以消除COVID-19大流行对各种族群体的潜在不成比例的影响。
IntroductionSince the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in California, the geospatial distribution of disease cases has fluctuated over time. Given documented racial disparities in other parts of the country, longitudinal convergence of COVID-19 rates around race groups warrants assessment.MethodsCounty-level cases for COVID-19 were collected from the Johns Hopkins University, and racial distributions were collected from the American Community Survey. Pearson's correlation coefficients were computed for each day since COVID-19 was first reported in California, and the longitudinal distribution of each race-specific set of correlation coefficients was assessed for stationarity, linear trend and exponential trend.ResultsEarlier in the outbreak, the distribution of COVID-19 was most highly correlated with Asian American communities; after approximately 100 days, the distribution of COVID-19 most closely resembled that of African American communities. For every day in this dataset, the county-level distribution of COVID-19 was negatively correlated with the distribution of White American communities in California.DiscussionThe geospatial distribution of COVID-19 in California has increasingly resembled that of African American communities within the state. Further study should be conducted to characterise potentially disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across race groups.