Multilevel modeling of county-level excessive alcohol use, rurality, and COVID-19 case fatality rates in the US

• George Pro ,

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

  * E-mail: gcpro@uams.edu

  Affiliation Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8901-9012

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• Paul A. Gilbert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Julie A. Baldwin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Health Equity Research, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Clare C. Brown,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Sean Young,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0054-0627

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• Nickolas Zaller

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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