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cord-296375-gf0mgz5x	Zhang, Xi	Comparison of spatiotemporal characteristics of the COVID-19 and SARS outbreaks in mainland China	2020-10-30		.txt	text/plain	3275	164	53	CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 and SARS outbreaks exhibited distinct spatiotemporal clustering patterns at the provincial levels in mainland China, which may be attributable to changes in social and demographic factors, local government containment strategies or differences in transmission mechanisms. Therefore, in this study, by collecting the daily numbers of newly confirmed COVID-19 and SARS cases during the two epidemics, we aimed to determine the spatial behavior and temporal features of the COVID-19 spread in mainland China and compared them with respective features from the SARS epidemic using spatiotemporal analysis. Incident cases infected by COVID-19 were extracted from the daily briefings on novel coronavirus cases from January 20 to March 4, 2020, provided on the official website of the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China [5] . Incident cases of SARS were extracted from daily situation reports for mainland China from April 21 to August 3, 2003 , which were posted by China.org.cn (in Chinese) and were also provided by the National Health Commission.	./cache/cord-296375-gf0mgz5x.txt	./txt/cord-296375-gf0mgz5x.txt