This is the public repository for the data and codes in the study: Yiqun Ma, Sen Pei, Jeffrey Shaman, Robert Dubrow, and Kai Chen. Role of meteorological factors in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States. 2021
The data sets used in the study are publicly available from the following locations:
- County-level COVID-19 case and death data: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
- Daily numbers of inter-county visitors to points of interest: https://www.safegraph.com
- Hourly air temperature and specific humidity: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/NLDAS_FORA0125_H_002/summary?keywords=NLDAS
- Daily downward UV radiation at the surface: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=overview
- U.S. county boundaries: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/cartographic-boundary.html
- U.S. county-to-county commuting data, population density, median household income, percent of people older than 60 years, percent black residents, percent Hispanic residents, percent owner-occupied housing, percent residents aged 25 years and over without a high school diploma, percent of healthcare practitioners or support staff: https://www.census.gov/data/tables.html
- Total ICU beds in each county: https://khn.org/news/as-coronavirus-spreads-widely-millions-of-older-americans-live-in-counties-with-no-icu-beds/
- Climate zone by county: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/10/f27/ba_climate_region_guide_7.3.pdf
- Prevalence of smoking and obesity among adults in each county: https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/explore-health-rankings/rankings-data-documentation
- Annual PM2.5 concentrations in the U.S. from 2014 to 2018: http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/~atmos/martin/?page_id=140
- Short-term daily mean PM2.5 and daily maximum 8-hour O3: https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data/download-daily-data
Estimates of county-level reproduction number are available at https://github.com/shaman-lab/Counterfactual
Email: kai.chen@yale.edu
Authors retain copyright (where applicable) of code, reproduction number estimation, and attributable fraction estimation on this Github repository and the article. Anyone who wishes to reuse or adapt this material must obtain permission from the corresponding author.