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dc.contributor.authorKulu, Hill
dc.contributor.authorDorey, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-31T09:30:11Z
dc.date.available2020-07-31T09:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-24
dc.identifier269404048
dc.identifier7fb18216-b6db-469b-b5d5-e0b1ea681b17
dc.identifier.citationKulu , H & Dorey , P 2020 , ' Infection rates from Covid-19 in Great Britain by geographical units : a model-based estimation from mortality data ' , SocArXiv . https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/84f3een
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8808-0719/work/78205079
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-5213-644X/work/78205142
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20383
dc.description.abstractThis study estimates cumulative infection rates from Covid-19 in Great Britain by geographical units and investigates spatial patterns in infection rates. We propose a model-based approach to calculate cumulative infection rates from data on observed and expected deaths from Covid-19. Our analysis of mortality data shows that between 5 and 6% of people in Great Britain were infected by Covid-19 by the last third of April 2020. It is unlikely that the infection rate was lower than 3% or higher than 12%. Secondly, England had higher infection rates than Scotland and Wales, although the differences between countries were not large. Thirdly, we observed a substantial variation in virus infection rates in Great Britain by geographical units. Estimated infection rates were highest in the capital city of London where more than 10% of the population might have been infected and also in other major urban regions, while the lowest were in small towns and rural areas. Finally, spatial regression analysis showed that the virus infection rates increased with the increasing population density of the area and the level of deprivation. The results suggest that people from lower socioeconomic groups in urban areas (including those with minority backgrounds) were most affected by the spread of coronavirus in March and April.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSocArXiven
dc.subjectCovid-19en
dc.subjectInfectious diseasesen
dc.subjectInfection ratesen
dc.subjectMortalityen
dc.subjectStatistical modellingen
dc.subjectSpatial analysisen
dc.subjectRA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicineen
dc.subjectHA Statisticsen
dc.subjectG Geography (General)en
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingen
dc.subject.lccRA0421en
dc.subject.lccHAen
dc.subject.lccG1en
dc.titleInfection rates from Covid-19 in Great Britain by geographical units : a model-based estimation from mortality dataen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Population and Health Researchen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sir James Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosisen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doi10.31235/osf.io/84f3e
dc.description.statusNon peer revieweden


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