Patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity

Abstract The outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the drastic measures taken to mitigate its spread through imposed social distancing, have brought forward the need to better understand the underlying factors controlling spatial distribution of human activities promoting disease...

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Autores principales:	Gabriel I. Cotlier, Yoav Lehahn, Doron Chelouche
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5a7db905303241009fe6db68eace3d442021-11-14T12:20:48ZPatterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity10.1038/s41598-021-01257-82045-2322https://doaj.org/article/5a7db905303241009fe6db68eace3d442021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01257-8https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract The outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the drastic measures taken to mitigate its spread through imposed social distancing, have brought forward the need to better understand the underlying factors controlling spatial distribution of human activities promoting disease transmission. Focusing on results from 17,250 epidemiological investigations performed during early stages of the pandemic outbreak in Israel, we show that the distribution of carriers of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes COVID-19, is spatially correlated with two satellite-derived surface metrics: night light intensity and landscape patchiness, the latter being a measure to the urban landscape’s scale-dependent spatial heterogeneity. We find that exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers was significantly more likely to occur in “patchy” parts of the city, where the urban landscape is characterized by high levels of spatial heterogeneity at relatively small, tens of meters scales. We suggest that this spatial association reflects a scale-dependent constraint imposed by the city’s morphology on the cumulative behavior of the people inhabiting it. The presented results shed light on the complex interrelationships between humans and the urban landscape in which they live and interact, and open new avenues for implementation of multi-satellite data in large scale modeling of phenomena centered in urban environments.Gabriel I. CotlierYoav LehahnDoron CheloucheNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Gabriel I. Cotlier Yoav Lehahn Doron Chelouche Patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity
description	Abstract The outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the drastic measures taken to mitigate its spread through imposed social distancing, have brought forward the need to better understand the underlying factors controlling spatial distribution of human activities promoting disease transmission. Focusing on results from 17,250 epidemiological investigations performed during early stages of the pandemic outbreak in Israel, we show that the distribution of carriers of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes COVID-19, is spatially correlated with two satellite-derived surface metrics: night light intensity and landscape patchiness, the latter being a measure to the urban landscape’s scale-dependent spatial heterogeneity. We find that exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers was significantly more likely to occur in “patchy” parts of the city, where the urban landscape is characterized by high levels of spatial heterogeneity at relatively small, tens of meters scales. We suggest that this spatial association reflects a scale-dependent constraint imposed by the city’s morphology on the cumulative behavior of the people inhabiting it. The presented results shed light on the complex interrelationships between humans and the urban landscape in which they live and interact, and open new avenues for implementation of multi-satellite data in large scale modeling of phenomena centered in urban environments.
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title	Patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity
title_short	Patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity
title_full	Patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity
title_fullStr	Patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity
title_full_unstemmed	Patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity
title_sort	patterns of exposure to sars-cov-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity
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Patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 carriers manifest multiscale association between urban landscape morphology and human activity

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