What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether state-imposed stay-at-home orders and the proportion of African American population in a state were associated with the state-level COVID-19 cases from March to May 2020.
Authors: Bisakha Sen, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the corresponding author.
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