The use of health geography modeling to understand early dispersion of COVID-19 in São Paulo, Brazil

• Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza, Raul Borges Guimarães

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carlos.fortaleza@unesp.br

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4120-1258

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• Raul Borges Guimarães ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza, Raul Borges Guimarães

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Faculty of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Presidente Prudente, São Paulo State, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9925-5374

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• Rafael de Castro Catão ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil

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• Cláudia Pio Ferreira ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Biosciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

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• Gabriel Berg de Almeida ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

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• Thomas Nogueira Vilches ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computation, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil

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• Edmur Pugliesi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Faculty of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Presidente Prudente, São Paulo State, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3426-6619

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