Geographic access to United States SARS-CoV-2 testing sites highlights healthcare disparities and may bias transmission estimates

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2021, Pages 1-4

  Rader, Benjamin ^a,b   Astley, Christina M ^a,c,d   Sy, Karla Therese L ^b   Sewalk, Kara ^a   Hswen, Yulin ^a,e   Brownstein, John S ^a,d   Kraemer, Moritz U G ^a,d,e,f  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

COVID 19; Pandemic response; Rural; Surveillance; Testing; Travel time; Uninsured

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COVID-19 TESTING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PANDEMIC; PROCEDURES; RACISM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RACISM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85089865225     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/JTM/TAAA076     Document Type: Article

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