This Jupyter notebook is a replication attempt of Stier et al.'s preprint on Arxiv [1]. This notebook brings together MSA definitions and census data to allow demographic calculations for MSAs in relation to the coronavirus outbreak. The MSAs are a county-level unit delineated by the Census Bureau (see https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/metro-micro/about/delineation-files.html). The coronavirus outbreak data are provided by USAFacts (https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/, last downloaded March 25th, 2020 14:34 EDT).
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.. [1] Andrew J Stier, Marc G. Berman, and Luis M. A. Bettencourt. March 23rd, 2020. COVID-19 attack rate increases with city size. arXiv:2003.10376v1 [q-bio.PE]