Assessing Community Vulnerability over 3 Waves of COVID-19 Pandemic, Hong Kong, China

Abstract

We constructed a coronavirus disease community vulnerability index using micro district-level socioeconomic and demographic data and analyzed its correlations with case counts across the 3 pandemic waves in Hong Kong, China. We found that districts with greater vulnerability reported more cases in the third wave when widespread community outbreaks occurred.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• SARS-CoV-2
• coronavirus
• 2019 novel coronavirus disease
• severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
• zoonoses