Expanding Vulnerability Indices for Pandemic Effects

IF 16.4 1区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Kaveh Faraji Najarkolaie, M. Bensi, Ryan Dadmun, Courtney E Romolt, Yalda Saadat, Nicolette Louissaint
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In this study, our goal is to identify potentially vulnerable communities that could be subject to ongoing or compounding impacts from the pandemic and/or that may experience a slower recovery due to sociodemographic factors. For this purpose, we compiled information from multiple databases related to sociodemographic and health variables. We used a ranking-based method to integrate them and develop new combined indices. We also investigated a time-dependent correlation between vulnerability components and COVID-19 statistics to understand their time-dependent relationship. We ultimately developed pandemic vulnerability indices by combining CDC's social vulnerability index, our newly developed composite health vulnerability index, and COVID-19 impact indices. We also considered additional assessments include expected annual loss due to natural hazards and community resilience. Potential hot spots (at the county level) were identified throughout the United States, and some general trends were noted. Counties with high COVID-19 impact indices and higher values of the pandemic vulnerability indices were primarily located in the southern United States or coastal areas in the Eastern and Southwestern United States at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over time, the computed pandemic vulnerability indices shifted to higher values for counties in the southern and north-central United States, while values calculated for the northwestern and northeastern communities tended to decrease.
扩大流行病影响脆弱性指数
在这项研究中,我们的目标是确定可能受到流行病持续或复合影响和/或由于社会人口因素可能经历较慢恢复的潜在脆弱社区。为此,我们从与社会人口和健康变量相关的多个数据库中收集了信息。我们采用基于排名的方法对它们进行整合,形成新的组合指标。我们还研究了漏洞成分与COVID-19统计数据之间的时间依赖相关性,以了解它们的时间依赖关系。最终,我们将CDC的社会脆弱性指数、我们新开发的综合健康脆弱性指数和COVID-19影响指数相结合,制定了大流行脆弱性指数。我们还考虑了额外的评估,包括自然灾害和社区恢复能力造成的预期年度损失。在美国各地确定了潜在的热点(在县一级),并注意到一些一般趋势。COVID-19影响指数和大流行脆弱性指数较高的县主要位于美国南部或美国东部和西南部沿海地区。随着时间的推移,计算出的大流行脆弱性指数在美国南部和中北部的县转向较高的值,而在西北部和东北部社区的计算值则趋于下降。
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Accounts of Chemical Research
Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合
CiteScore
31.40
自引率
1.10%
发文量
312
审稿时长
2 months
期刊介绍: Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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