Tribal Mobility and COVID-19: An Urban-Rural Analysis in New Mexico
Tribal Mobility and COVID-19: An Urban-Rural Analysis in New Mexico
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10.1145/3446382.3448654
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2021-02
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Esther H. Showalter;Morgan Vigil-Hayes;E. Zegura;R. Sutton;E. Belding-Royer
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作者：
Esther H. Showalter;Morgan Vigil-Hayes;E. Zegura;R. Sutton;E. Belding-Royer
在COVID-19大流行期间，部落社区经历了不成比例的高感染率和死亡率[1，8，31]。在这项工作中，我们通过提供一种新的量化跨越部落边界以及城市和农村地区之间的人口流动模式，以人口普查区块组的地理分辨率，研究了邻近重要部落的COVID-19病例增长。我们使用新墨西哥州作为一个案例研究，由于其严重的病例感染率，但是，我们的方法推广到其他国家。结果表明，部落的流动性是独特的高相对于基线在县有显着的情况下计数。此外，部落地区的流动模式与13-16天后周围县的病例增长模式的相关性比任何其他地区都高。我们的初步研究结果提出了一个量化方案，部落/非部落和农村/城市地区之间的人类流动性的根本差异，其目标是为满足这些社区的不同需求的公共卫生政策提供信息。
Tribal communities have experienced disproportionately high infection and death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic [1, 8, 31]. In this work, we examine COVID-19 case growth in proximity to significant tribal presence by providing a novel quantification of human mobility patterns across tribal boundaries and between urban and rural regions at the geographical resolution of census block groups. We use New Mexico as a case study due to its severe case infection rates; however, our methodologies generalize to other states. Results show that tribal mobility is uniquely high relative to baseline in counties with significant case counts. Furthermore, mobility patterns in tribal regions correlate more highly than any other region with case growth patterns in the surrounding county 13-16 days later. Our initial results present a quantification scheme for the underlying differences in human mobility between tribal/non-tribal and rural/urban regions with the goal of informing public health policy that meets the differing needs of these communities.