Open AccessThe Impact of Keeping Indoor Dining Closed on COVID-19 Rates Among Large US Cities
Author(s) -
Alina Schnake-Mahl,
Gabriella O’Leary,
Pricila Mullachery,
Vaishnavi Vaidya,
Gabrielle Connor,
Heather Rollins,
Jennifer Kolker,
Ana V. Diez Roux,
Usama Bilal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000001444
Subject(s) - covid-19 , negative binomial distribution , environmental health , statistics , geography , medicine , mathematics , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , virology , poisson distribution
Indoor dining is one of the potential drivers of COVID-19 transmission. We used the heterogeneity among state government preemption of city indoor dining closures to estimate the impact of keeping indoor dining closed on COVID-19 incidence.