Social, economic, and environmental factors influencing the basic reproduction number of COVID-19 across countries

• Jude Dzevela Kong ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jdkong@yorku.ca

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Centre for Diseases Modeling (CDM), York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-5672

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• Edward W. Tekwa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States of America, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2971-6128

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• Sarah A. Gignoux-Wolfsohn

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, United States of America

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