The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues; Statistical Modeling; Analyses; and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information; the production of summary statistics and using the geometric mean; and the importance of using a Demographic framework in better understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical modeling is a second topic, and is covered by three chapters. To begin with, one approach centers on modeling local areas. A second chapter discusses and provides a simple method for estimating the number of unconfirmed COVID-19 cases in a local area; a third chapter undertakes an examination of early warnings and responses.
Analysis is a third topic and is covered by four chapters. The first chapter under this topic covers the effects of race and age on COVID-19. A second chapter examines the effects of COVID-19 on the broadband access and Census 2020 results for the Hopi and Lummi reservations. A third chapter examines the Black Lives Matters activism during the COVID-19 pandemic. A final chapter in this section examines the relative risk of dying from COVID-19 among those infected.
A final topic focuses on policy issues. The first chapter under this topic examines partisan politics and COVID-19. A second chapter examines US policy and COVID-19 cases and deaths. A third chapter examines COVID-19 mortality rates and race-ethnic differences. A fourth chapter examines anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic. A final chapter looks at Americas post-pandemic future.
Preface; Richard R. Verdugo and David A. Swanson.
Acknowledgments.
Section I: Data.
Chapter
1. The Struggle to Obtain Reliable COVID-19 Information; David A.
Swanson and Eric G. Tyberg.
Chapter
2. Producing Summary Statistics of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Over
Time: A Note on Using Geometric Measures, Not Arithmetic Ones; Richard
Verdugo, Arni S. R. Srinivasa Rao, Steven G. Krantz, and David A. Swanson.
Chapter
3. The Importance of Demographic Data for Understanding the COVID-19
Pandemic: A Case Study of Utah; Mike Hollingshaus and Emily Harris.
Section II: Modeling.
Chapter
4. Modeling and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Local Area Perspective;
David A. Swanson.
Chapter
5. A Simple Method for Estimating the Number of Unconfirmed COVID-19
Cases in a Local Area That Includes a Confidence Interval: A Case Study of
Whatcom County, Washington; David A. Swanson and Ronald E. Cossman.
Chapter
6. An Early-Warning COVID-19 Alert and Response Protocol for Seasonal
Resort Communities; David A. Swanson and Peter A. Morrison.
Section III: Analysis.
Chapter
7. Viral Infections, Race, and Age in the United States; Neal
Marquez, Jessica Godwin, and Sara Curran.
Chapter
8. Broadband Access During a Pandemic: 2020 U.S. Census Results for
the Hopi and Lummi Reservations; David A. Swanson.
Chapter
9. Matters of Life, Death, and Livelihood: Black Lives Matters and
Labor Activism During the Pandemic; Juliann Allison, Ellen Reese, Jasmine
Rocha, and Alessandra Rosales.
Chapter
10. The Relative Risk of Dying From COVID-19 Among Those Infected
Reveals a Disturbing Portrait of Both COVID-19 Mortality and Non-COVID-19
Mortality in the United States; David A. Swanson, Dudley Poston, Steven G.
Krantz, and Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao.
Chapter
11. The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on US Racial and
Ethnic Groups; Richard K. Thomas and Sabrina Alam.
Section IV: Policy Issues.
Chapter
12. A Danger to Public Health? Republicanism and the COVID-19
Pandemic; David A. Swanson and Eric G. Tyberg.
Chapter
13. U.S. Policy and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths: An Analysis; Richard
R. Verdugo, David A. Swanson, Arni Rao, and Steven Krantz.
Chapter
14. The Coronavirus Mortality Rates: Race and Hispanic Ethnic
Differences; Richard R. Verdugo and Daphany Verdugo Hall.
Chapter
15. Anti-Asian Hate During the Pandemic; Michael P. Huynh, Anne Saw,
and David T. Takeuchi.
Chapter
16. America's Post-Pandemic Future: A Demographic Perspective; David
A. Swanson, Peter A. Morrison, Dudley Poston, Steven Krantz, and Arni Rao.
About the Contributors.
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