Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties

Khansa Ahmad; Sebhat Erqou; Nishant Shah; Umair Nazir; Alan R. Morrison; Gaurav Choudhary; Wen-Chih Wu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241327

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Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties

Khansa Ahmad,

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

Affiliation The Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lifespan Hospitals and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4376-3043

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Sebhat Erqou,

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

Affiliation The Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lifespan Hospitals and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Nishant Shah,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lifespan Hospitals and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Umair Nazir,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lifespan Hospitals and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Alan R. Morrison,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lifespan Hospitals and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Gaurav Choudhary,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lifespan Hospitals and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Wen-Chih Wu

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

* E-mail: wen-chih.wu@va.gov

Affiliation The Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lifespan Hospitals and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties

Khansa Ahmad,
Sebhat Erqou,
Nishant Shah,
Umair Nazir,
Alan R. Morrison,
Gaurav Choudhary,
Wen-Chih Wu

Published: November 2, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241327

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