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

Benjamin Rader; Christina M Astley; Karla Therese L Sy; Kara Sewalk; Yulin Hswen; John S Brownstein; Moritz U G Kraemer

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa076

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

J Travel Med. 2020 Nov 9;27(7):taaa076. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa076.

Authors

Benjamin Rader^{1

2}, Christina M Astley^{1

3

4

5}, Karla Therese L Sy^{2

6}, Kara Sewalk¹, Yulin Hswen^{1

7

8}, John S Brownstein^{1

5}, Moritz U G Kraemer^{1

5

8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Computational Epidemiology Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁵ Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁸ Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁹ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; pandemic response; rural; surveillance; testing; travel-time; uninsured.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

COVID-19 Testing
COVID-19*
Clinical Laboratory Techniques* / methods
Female
Health Services Accessibility* / statistics & numerical data
Healthcare Disparities* / economics
Healthcare Disparities* / ethnology
Humans
Linear Models
Male
Pandemics / prevention & control
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data
Racism
Socioeconomic Factors
Time Factors
Travel*
United States

Grants and funding

K23 DK120899/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States