1; Virginia B. Bowen, PhD1; Andrew Leidner, PhD1; Kelly Fletcher, MPH1; Trieste Musial, MS1; Charles Rose, PhD1; Amy Cha, PhD1; Gloria Kang, PhD1; Emilio Dirlikov, PhD1; Eric Pevzner, PhD1; Dale Rose, PhD1; Matthew D.
Ritchey, DPT1; Julie Villanueva, PhD1; Celeste Philip, MD1; Leandris Liburd, PhD1; Alexandra M. Oster, MD1 (View author affiliations)Communities with higher social vulnerabilities, including poverty and crowded housing units, have more adverse outcomes during and following a public health event.Counties with greater social vulnerability were more likely to become areas with rapidly increasing COVID-19 incidence (hotspot counties), especially counties with higher percentages of racial and ethnic minority residents and people.