With doubts over capability and emergency preparedness of local public health department, S4A investigators* at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health used spending data to determine if pre-COVID local health department spending shielded county populations from COVID-19 early in the pandemic.

The presentation slides from the virtual 2021 Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting are available here.

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Project: Multi-Dimensional COVID-19 Control in US: Identifying Counties with High and Low Levels of Success
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