@article{ref1,
title="Counties with lower insurance coverage and housing problems are associated with both slower vaccine rollout and higher covid-19 incidence",
journal="Vaccines",
year="2021",
author="Donadio, G. and Choudhary, M. and Lindemer, E. and Pawlowski, C. and Soundararajan, V.",
volume="9",
number="9",
pages="-",
abstract="Equitable vaccination distribution is a priority for outcompeting the transmission of COVID-19. Here, the impact of demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental factors on county-level vaccination rates and COVID-19 incidence changes is assessed. In particular, using data from 3142 US counties with over 328 million individuals, correlations were computed between cumulative vaccination rate and change in COVID-19 incidence from 1 December 2020 to 6 June 2021, with 44 different demographic, environmental, and socioeconomic factors. This correlation analysis was also performed using multivariate linear regression to adjust for age as a potential confounding variable. These correlation analyses demonstrated that counties with high levels of uninsured individuals have significantly lower COVID-19 vaccination rates (Spearman correlation: −0.460, p-value: <0.001). In addition, severe housing problems and high housing costs were strongly correlated with increased COVID-19 incidence (Spearman correlations: 0.335, 0.314, p-values: <0.001, <0.001). This study shows that socioeconomic factors are strongly correlated to both COVID-19 vaccination rates and incidence rates, underscoring the need to improve COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in marginalized communities. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2076-393X",
doi="10.3390/vaccines9090973",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9090973"
}