Association of cell phone location data and trends in COVID-19 infections during loosening of stay-at-home restrictions

We report that during the loosening of stay-at-home mandates, U.S. counties with more county level workplace cell phone activity had a more rapid increase in incidence of COVID-19. Though these results are not applicable at an individual level, they improve estimation of areas at higher risk of COVI...

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Published in:Journal of travel medicine 2020-12, Vol.27 (8)
Main Authors: Sehra, Shiv T, Kishfy, Louis J, Brodski, Alexander, George, Michael D, Wiebe, Douglas J, Baker, Joshua F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cell Phone - statistics & numerical data
Cellular telephones
Communicable Disease Control - methods
Communicable Disease Control - statistics & numerical data
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - prevention & control
Disease transmission
Electronic Data Processing - methods
Geographic Information Systems - instrumentation
Geographic Information Systems - statistics & numerical data
Geographic Mapping
Humans
Infections
Loosening
Medicine
Pandemics
Pandemics - statistics & numerical data
Physical Distancing
Pneumonia
Population
R&D
Research & development
Research Letter
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Shelter in place
Social distancing
Travel - statistics & numerical data
Travel medicine
Trends
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:We report that during the loosening of stay-at-home mandates, U.S. counties with more county level workplace cell phone activity had a more rapid increase in incidence of COVID-19. Though these results are not applicable at an individual level, they improve estimation of areas at higher risk of COVID-19 surge.
ISSN:1195-1982
1708-8305
DOI:10.1093/jtm/taaa177