*From the Institute for Health & Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

†Milwaukee County COVID-19 Epidemiology Intel Team, Milwaukee, WI

‡Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

§Michael Reese Foundation Center for Health Equity Research, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL

¶City of Milwaukee Health Department, Milwaukee, WI

∥Greenfield Health Department, Milwaukee, WI

**Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Accepted for publication December 19, 2023

Medical College of Wisconsin Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment funds were awarded to Dr. Beyer as PI and some research team members to investigate spatial and temporal trends of COVID-19 infection with attention to racial disparities.

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

This manuscript is posted as a preprint on the Social Science Research Network (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4456596)

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Address for correspondence: Shana Terai Lara, BS, BA, Department of Epidemiology, Institute for Health & Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226. E-mail: [email protected].