Table 1.

Wave 1 statistics using different criteria.

Variable	Criterion 1: End of First Wave				Criterion 2: Start of Second Wave				Criterion 3: Average Threshold
	Mean	Max	Min	Moran I	Mean	Max	Min	Moran I	Mean	Max	Min	Moran I
Duration (days)	130.981	193	95	0.111 *	300.596	340	249	0.253 ***	215.481	240	186	0.070
Cases	3403.787	6281.746	1406.369	0.381 ***	4536.999	6965.738	2689.269	0.336 ***	3940.650	6471.989	1914.770	0.374 ***
Deaths	125.465	271.645	33.464	0.431 ***	174.446	387.238	41.831	0.392 ***	153.225	336.377	33.464	0.411 ***
Cases/duration	25.789	45.613	13.788	0.399 ***	15.270	24.595	8.704	0.426 ***	18.336	30.461	8.664	0.437 ***
Deaths/duration	0.951	2.245	0.314	0.405 ***	0.586	1.340	0.137	0.445 ***	0.712	1.633	0.167	0.411 ***

Significance level: *** p < 0.01, * p < 0.1.