Predictors of Death Rate during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorFeinhandler, Ian
dc.contributor.authorCilento, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorBeauvais, Bradley
dc.contributor.authorHarrop, Jordan
dc.contributor.authorFulton, Lawrence V.
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-27T13:52:42Z
dc.date.available2021-07-27T13:52:42Z
dc.date.issued2020-09
dc.description.abstractCoronavirus (COVID-19) is a potentially fatal viral infection. This study investigates geography, demography, socioeconomics, health conditions, hospital characteristics, and politics as potential explanatory variables for death rates at the state and county levels. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Census Bureau, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Definitive Healthcare, and USAfacts.org were used to evaluate regression models. Yearly pneumonia and flu death rates (state level, 2014–2018) were evaluated as a function of the governors’ political party using a repeated measures analysis. At the state and county level, spatial regression models were evaluated. At the county level, we discovered a statistically significant model that included geography, population density, racial and ethnic status, three health status variables along with a political factor. A state level analysis identified health status, minority status, and the interaction between governors’ parties and health status as important variables. The political factor, however, did not appear in a subsequent analysis of 2014–2018 pneumonia and flu death rates. The pathogenesis of COVID-19 has a greater and disproportionate effect within racial and ethnic minority groups, and the political influence on the reporting of COVID-19 mortality was statistically relevant at the county level and as an interaction term only at the state level.
dc.description.departmentHealth Administration
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dc.format.extent16 pages
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dc.identifier.citationFeinhandler, I., Cilentro, B., Beauvais, B., Harrop, J., & Fulton, L. (2020). Predictors of death rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare, 8(3), 339.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030339
dc.identifier.issn2227-9032
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/14093
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.rights.holder© 2020 The Authors.
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
dc.sourceHealthcare, 2020, Vol. 8, No. 3, Article 339.
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectgeospatial regression
dc.subjecthealth disparities
dc.subjectpublic health
dc.subjectHealth Administration
dc.titlePredictors of Death Rate during the COVID-19 Pandemic
dc.typeArticle

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