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Yuan Lai¹, Marie-Laure Charpignon², Daniel K Ebner³

¹Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.

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Analyzing county-level COVID-19 data reveals mobility differences. Counties with more young adults showed higher mobility and less reduction during lockdowns, highlighting demographic impacts on pandemic behavior.

Keywords:

COVID-19 Data science Epidemiology Health informatics Unsupervised learning Urban informatics

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Area of Science:

Epidemiology
Public Health
Data Science

Background:

County-level COVID-19 data analysis presents computational challenges due to data source heterogeneity.
Geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic factors vary significantly across counties, complicating analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a novel method for integrating diverse data sources for county-level COVID-19 analysis.
To investigate underlying typological effects and disparities across different county types.
To demonstrate consistencies and variations between urban and non-urban counties.

Main Methods:

Developed a data integration method to combine relevant information from disparate sources.
Stratified county types by age group distribution.
Analyzed community mobility patterns before, during, and after lockdown periods.

Main Results:

Identified significant differences in community mobility across various county types and age groups.
Counties with a higher proportion of young adults (20-24 years) exhibited higher baseline mobility.
These counties also demonstrated the least reduction in mobility during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Conclusions:

The proposed method effectively addresses challenges in analyzing heterogeneous county-level COVID-19 data.
Demographic factors, specifically the proportion of young adults, significantly influence mobility patterns during a pandemic.
Understanding these typological differences is crucial for targeted public health interventions.