September 2026: Our work examining spatiotemporal variation of COVID-19 deaths with respect to socioeconomic, health, demographic, and political factors, is now published in BMC Public Health.
Background: In early 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly spread across the United States (US), exhibiting significant geographic variability. While several studies have examined the predictive relationships of differing factors on COVID-19, few have looked at spatiotemporal variation of COVID-19 deaths at refined geographic scales.
Seamon, Erich, Benjamin J. Ridenhour, Craig R. Miller, and Jennifer Johnson-Leung. “Predictive Spatial Modeling of Sociodemographic Risk for COVID-19 Mortality.” BMC Public Health, ahead of print, September 11, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-29313-w.