Rural-urban outcome differences associated with COVID-19 hospitalizations in North Carolina

• Sheri Denslow ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheri Denslow, Jason R. Wingert

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

  Affiliation Epidemiologist/Statistician, Department of Research, UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC, Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jason R. Wingert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheri Denslow, Jason R. Wingert

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jwingert@unca.edu

  Affiliation Department of Health and Wellness, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7894-1279

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• Amresh D. Hanchate,

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

  Affiliation Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Aubri Rote,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health and Wellness, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States of America

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• Daniel Westreich,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Laura Sexton,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sage Nutrition Associates, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Kedai Cheng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Janis Curtis,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Data Research Networks, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• William Schuyler Jones,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, Member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Amy Joy Lanou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health and Wellness, Executive Director, NC Center for Health and Wellness, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jacqueline R. Halladay

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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