Past local government health spending was not correlated with COVID-19 control in US counties

Lamba, Sneha, Carrie Wolfson, Carolina Cardona, Natalia Alfonso, Alison Gemmil, Beth Resnick, Jonathon P. Leider, Mac McCullough, and David Bishai. 2022. “Past Local Government Health Spending Was Not Correlated With COVID-19 Control in US Counties”. ScienceDirect.

Abstract

Overview

S4A investigators at Johns Hopkins University look for a correlation between total non-hospital health spending by county governments before the pandemic, and how fast a county was able to control the first wave of COVID-19 from March to June of 2020. The research team finds substantial variation in county and state health spending in the US. While county level non-hospital health spending before pandemic was not associated with early control over COVID-19, state level spending on hazard preparation was in some model specifications.

Read the full article in ScienceDirect to learn more about their findings.


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101027

Last updated on 02/21/2023