Fig. 2.

Summary of correlations between socioeconomic status parameters and confirmed COVID-19 cases within the 8 city locations. Heat table represents associations between all eight cities' socioeconomic status parameters and (normalized and monthly averaged) COVID-19 cases from August 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021. For each location, the individual monthly cumulative cases were averaged into one value. These averaged monthly cases were normalized per 100,000 population. Spearman and Kendall correlation analyses were performed for each comparison to indicate respective p-values. SES parameters with a significant COVID-19 association (p-values less than or equal to 0.05 and/or 0.10) are denoted with a positive or negative correlation coefficient in parenthesis and exact pvalues are emphasized within table in bold. A positive coefficient value indicates a positive association while a negative coefficient indicates a negative association.