Why will cities return after the strong?

In fact, research shows that city life is not as dangerous as you might suspect. Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Utah found this last June density was not associated with infection rates The population of the metropolitan area in U.S. counties, taking into account socioeconomic factors and health infrastructure; moreover, connectivity between counties was more important in the spread and mortality of viruses through things like traveling. An article published in July by the German Institute of Labor Economics found that covid-19 would sooner appear in dense counties, population density was not related to the total number of cases and deaths.

In other words, in terms of coronavirus, density is not fate. New York City was initially the US epicenter part of the pandemic, due to its status as an international destination, but due to weekly cases fall as security measures became entrenched. (The number of subsequent cases rose again in the autumn of last year the hot spots reappeared and the holidays arrived, and again in February new variants are expanding, even though the vaccines promise to be dropped again.)

The rural counties of Alaska, Colorado, and Texas — far from densely populated areas — hit hard in early 2021, each more than 100 cases per 100,000 population per day, According to the New York Times. However, high-density cities Asia and Australia last year they were able to control coronaviruses. Even if China, where covid-19 was first found, effectively he dominated the pandemic For a population of 1.4 billion, 60% of whom live in cities.

Cities are resilient, just like the people who live there.

This does not mean that density is irrelevant to kobid-19 transmission or that we understand how the disease spreads. Some research, among others, was a study published by the JAMA Network Open last July population density connected with coronavirus spread. Research published in the journal PLOS One in December he concluded that “density matters” although in the last stages of the appearances the difference seemed to be greater than at the beginning.