Urban-rural disparities in COVID-19 hospitalisations and mortality: A population-based study on national surveillance data from Germany and Italy

• Simona Bignami-Van Assche ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Daniela Ghio, Nikolaos I. Stilianakis

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

  * E-mail: simona.bignami@umontreal.ca

  Affiliation Département de Démographie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8246-3046

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• Federico Ferraccioli ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Current address: Department of Statistical Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

  ¶‡ FF, NR, and JGR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

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• Nicola Riccetti ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  ¶‡ FF, NR, and JGR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

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• Jaime Gomez-Ramirez ,

  Roles Data curation

  Current address: European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA), Brussels, Belgium

  ¶‡ FF, NR, and JGR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9440-7711

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• Daniela Ghio ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Daniela Ghio, Nikolaos I. Stilianakis

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CERC in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada

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• Nikolaos I. Stilianakis

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Daniela Ghio, Nikolaos I. Stilianakis

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

  Affiliations European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy, Department of Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-265X

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