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ArticleEpidemiology and health2022

Local-level spatiotemporal dynamics of COVID-19 transmission in the Greater Seoul Area, Korea: a view from a Bayesian perspective.

Youngbin Lym, Hyobin Lym, Ki-Jung Kim

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Article in Epidemiology and health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Youngbin LymResearch Institute of Natural Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon Korea.
Hyobin LymCenter for Agricultural Outlook Sejong Office, Korea Rural Economic Institute, Cheongju, Korea.
Ki-Jung KimDepartment of Smart Car Engineering, Doowon Technical University, Paju, Korea.

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Ministry of EducationNational Research Foundation of Korea 2021R1A6A3A01087232
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe purpose of this study was to enhance the understanding of the local-level spatiotemporal dynamics of COVID-19 transmission in the Greater Seoul Area (GSA), Korea, after its initial outbreak in January 2020.

methodsUsing the weekly aggregates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases of 77 municipalities in the GSA, we examined the relative risks of COVID-19 infection across local districts over 50 consecutive weeks in 2020. To this end, we employed a spatiotemporal generalized linear mixed model under the hierarchical Bayesian framework. This allowed us to empirically examine the random effects of spatial alignments, temporal autocorrelation, and spatiotemporal interaction, along with fixed effects. Specifically, we utilized the conditional autoregressive and the weakly informative penalized complexity priors for hyperparameters of the random effects.

resultsSpatiotemporal interaction dominated the overall variability of random influences, followed by spatial correlation, whereas the temporal correlation appeared to be small. Considering these findings, we present dynamic changes in the spread of COVID-19 across local municipalities in the GSA as well as regions at elevated risk for further policy intervention.

conclusionsThe outcomes of this study can contribute to advancing our understanding of the local-level COVID-19 spread dynamics within densely populated regions in Korea throughout 2020 from a different perspective, and will contribute to the development of regional safety planning against infectious diseases.

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COVID-19Bayes TheoremDisease OutbreaksHumansLinear ModelsSeoulCoronavirusLocal municipalityPublic healthTransmission risk

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