Population density and basic reproductive number of COVID-19 across United States counties

• Karla Therese L. Sy,

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

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0608-9811

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• Laura F. White,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Brooke E. Nichols

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: brooken@bu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4682-4999

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