In the last post, I found a 6th order polynomial relationship between health outcomes from County Health Rankings and COVID Mortality. The health outcomes ranking is a composite of length of life and quality of life rankings. A description of their model can be seen in the video above. First I will look at the […]

There was a lack of predictors for COVID hospitalization and case rates. I looked at 60 County Health Ranking (CHR) statistics for correlations. For vaccination rates, I found 12 significant results for COVID vaccination rates or 20%. Likewise, I found 19 significant results out of 60 for COVID Case mortality or 31.7%. The criteria for […]

Last week, I looked at the % of the county population that is non-Hispanic White predicting county case mortality and vaccination rates. There was a positive correlation between this percentage and case mortality and a nearly equal negative correlation between this percentage and vaccination rates in these counties. This week I’ll take a look at […]

I thought I would take a break from politics to look at how demographics and local broadband access predict COVID vaccination rates and case mortality. The above graph shows a strong positive correlation between the percentage of the county that is non-Hispanic white and the case mortality. A possible outlier might be Huntingdon county with […]

In the last post, regression models for school funding and men’s and women’s income were presented as predictors for COVID case mortality (COVID deaths/COVID cases). A Facebook reader asked me to explain the models and measures. Case Mortality is an estimate of the risk of dying if one catches COVID. The regression model estimates how […]

In my last statistical post I wrote about food insecurity, motor vehicle crash death rates and COVID Case mortality in the 10 county region. For this post, I thought I would write about school funding adequacy, men and women’s income and case mortality. County Health Rankings defines school funding adequacy as “The average gap in […]

I thought I would return to COVID case mortality prediction by County Health Rankings statistics not included in the overall rankings but are still Illuminating. The image above shows the relationship between the percentage of the county that is food insecure and the case mortality rate from COVID. It shows a significant positive relationship accounting […]

  I have been using the stat package R to create graphics. Above is a graph from R that uses the same variables in a graph from the last post: case mortality and the average number of mentally unhealthy days in the last month. I was able to add another layer to the graph by […]

I finished being at the Juneteenth festivities in Johnstown and am ready to get back to county health rankings (CHR) and local COVID numbers. Case mortality (the number of deceased divided by the number of cases) will be the focus of this post. Two weeks ago, I focused on vaccination rates in the 10 county region. Case […]

I have talked in the last few posts about COVID rates and County Health Rankings (CHR). I flagged significant correlations between the rates and the rankings (greater than 0.632 or less than -0.632 for 10 counties). While the rankings are easy to explain and are often quoted in the media, the individual statistics (more than […]