1. COVID-19 metrics across parliamentary constituencies and districts in India.
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Wang, Weiyu, Blossom, Jeffrey, Kim, Julie, deSouza, Priyanka, Zhang, Weixing, Kim, Rockli, Sarwal, Rakesh, and Subramanian, S V
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COVID-19 , *COVID-19 pandemic , *DEATH rate - Abstract
In India, Parliamentary Constituencies (PCs) could serve as a regional unit of COVID-19 monitoring that facilitates evidence-based policy decisions. In this study, we presented the first estimates of COVID-19 cumulative cases and deaths per 100,000 population and the case fatality rate (CFR) between 7 January 2020 and 31 January 2021 across PCs and districts of India. We adopted a novel geographic information science-based methodology called crosswalk to estimate COVID-19 outcomes at the PC-level from district-level information. We found a substantial variation of COVID-19 burden within each state and across the country. Access to PC-level and district-level COVID-19 information can enhance both central and regional governmental accountability of safe reopening policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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