Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Transmission Patterns in Three Chinese Regions vs. South Korea,Italy and Iran

Junyu He; Guangwei Chen; Yutong Jiang; Runjie Jin; Mingjun He; Ashton Shortridge; Jiaping Wu; George Christakos

The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.09.20053223 doi: medRxiv preprint  Zhejiang used 5-color maps to assess each county's health risk by considering the accumulated number of infected individual, ratio of the number of local patients over total number of patients, clustered cases, the number of continuous days that no new infected individuals were detected (e.g., Zhejiang announced that the disease control focus switched from preventing the import of infected individuals to avoiding local disease spread, and its efforts switched from disease control to both disease control and ensuring economic development at the same time). Legal punishment  People whose actions threatened public health were legally punished (e.g., people who hide their health condition, violated local disease control measures, or concealed that they were coming from or traveling to areas at a severe disease state).