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Acta Geographica Sinica. 2023, (02) Core

Scaling law of COVID-19 cases and city size and its evolution over timeChinese Full TextEnglish Full Text (MT)

XU Gang;JIAO Limin;LI Xinhu;XIAO Yixiong;GONG Peng;GONG Jianya;School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University;Geo-computation Center for Social Science, Wuhan University;School of Spatial Planning and Design, Zhejiang University City College;Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University;Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong;School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University;

Abstract: Urban scaling law quantifies the disproportional growth of urban indicators with urban population size, which is one of the simple rules behind the complex urban system.Infectious diseases are closely related to social interactions that intensify in large cities,resulting in a faster speed of transmission in large cities. However, how this scaling relationship varies in an evolving pandemic is rarely investigated and remains unclear. Here, taking the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States as an ... More
Keywords：

complex urban system; scaling law; infectious disease; urban health; COVID-19; the United States;

  • Series：

    (A) Mathematics/ Physics/ Mechanics/ Astronomy; (F) Literature/ History/ Philosophy; (E) Medicine ＆ Public Health; (H) Education ＆ Social Sciences

  • Subject：

    Preventive Medicine and Hygiene; Demology and Family Planning

  • Classification Code：

    R181.3;C924.2

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