Research on the Influence of Information Diffusion on the Transmission of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Lin Shanlang; Ma Chao; Lin Ruofei; Huang Junpei; Xu Ruohan; Yuan Aini

The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is . https://doi.org/10. 1101 /2020 Isolating and testing the suspected Table 1 Items of Traffic Control and Self-control Other control variables. (1) The influx of population in Wuhan ( ratio ). Wuhan is the city of the outbreak, and the influx of Wuhan population may lead to the cross-city transmission of the epidemic. The big data of Baidu Migration provides the destination and proportion of population migration in Wuhan every day. This paper selects the proportion of population flow in Wuhan to other cities to represent the population inflow in Wuhan; (2) GDP per capita ( pergdp ). GDP per capita reflects the level of urban social and economic development, while cities with high economic development tend to have more complete epidemic prevention facilities and stronger epidemic prevention capacity.