ABSTRACT

This study examines the effects of community vulnerability on residential sequestering across counties in the United States. Powerlessness and racialized politics are two hypothesized reasons for why community vulnerability affects social distancing behavior. Powerlessness is tied to the socioeconomic disadvantages of places, which intertwines with politics and race to produce a stratified response to the pandemic. We examine these dynamics with analyses that account for the disease epidemiology and other demographic factors. Data come from multiple sources, including Google’s Mobility Reports and Cuebiq’s Mobility Insights. Growth curve analyses find that socioeconomic disadvantage, political orientation, and racial composition independently explain the rate of change in mobility and peak residential sequestering levels during the initial outbreak. These conceptually separate dimensions of community vulnerability operate in concert, rather than as substitutes or as competing explanations, to impact the behavioral response to COVID-19.

摘要

本研究考察了社区脆弱性对美国各县住宅隔离的影响。无能为力和种族化的政治是社区脆弱性影响社会疏远行为的两个假设原因。无能为力与地方的社会经济劣势有关，这与政治和种族交织在一起，以产生对大流行的分层反应。我们通过解释疾病流行病学和其他人口统计因素的分析来检查这些动态。数据来自多个来源，包括 Google 的 Mobility Reports 和 Cuebiq 的 Mobility Insights。增长曲线分析发现，社会经济劣势、政治取向、和种族构成独立解释了最初爆发期间流动性的变化率和住宅隔离峰值水平。这些概念上独立的社区脆弱性维度协同作用，而不是作为替代品或相互竞争的解释，以影响对 COVID-19 的行为反应。