The Dark Side of Density: Coronavirus Pandemic Exposes the Risks of High Population Density - PA TIMES Online
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The coronavirus pandemic offers an opportunity to reflect on the multi-faceted nature of urbanization and the threats to people, the built and natural environment and the public service provision that rising population density poses.
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Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics
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Density and its Effect on COVID-19 Spread
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Credited Responses: New Normal for Digital Life 2025, Imagining the Internet
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The Demise of Local News Is a Pandemic Emergency - The Atlantic
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What We Know About Density and Covid-19's Spread - Bloomberg
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ACP - Peculiar COVID-19 effects in the Greater Tokyo Area revealed by spatiotemporal variabilities of tropospheric gases and light-absorbing aerosols
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A meta-analysis of projected global food demand and population at risk of hunger for the period 2010–2050
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Molecules, Free Full-Text
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Compact living or policy inaction? Effects of urban density and lockdown on the COVID-19 outbreak in the US - Andy Hong, Sandip Chakrabarti, 2023
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Entropy, Free Full-Text
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Covid-19 Cases in the U.S. by Population Density —
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Association between population density and infection rate suggests the importance of social distancing and travel restriction in reducing the COVID-19 pandemic