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Arpino et al. (1) report the failure of aggregate data to show an association between intergenerational relationships (IR) and COVID-19 mortality. We hypothesized that high mortality in countries like Italy… Click to show full abstract
Arpino et al. (1) report the failure of aggregate data to show an association between intergenerational relationships (IR) and COVID-19 mortality. We hypothesized that high mortality in countries like Italy may stem from the interaction of early infection seeding, high levels of IR, and older population age structures (2). High levels of IR alone are not sufficient to drive mortality, and thus the analyses by Arpino et al. do not provide a test of this hypothesis. First, initial infection seeding is a necessary precondition for any association between IR and COVID-19 mortality. At the extreme of no infections, no level of IR contact could spread it. Initial community seeding is … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: jennifer.dowd{at}sociology.ox.ac.uk. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1
Journal Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Year Published: 2020
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