The aim of this study was to test empirically for a general detectable fingerprint of anthropogenic drivers on the geographical distribution of human outbreaks of 32 emerging infectious diseases, based on existing geolocated outbreak and case data sources, and gridded datasets representing key socio-environmental disease drivers. To account for differing ecological characteristics across diseases and
Study design and participant recruitment IMPACC is a prospective longitudinal study that enrolled >1,000 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, as previously described27,32,55,56,57,58. Participants 18 years and older were recruited from 20 hospitals across 15 academic institutes within the USA (Fig. 1a). All participants were confirmed to be SARS-CoV-2-positive by reverse transcription PCR (RT–PCR) testing and no participants
