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cord-315343-ywgoqlxj	Ribeiro, Haroldo V.	City size and the spreading of COVID-19 in Brazil	2020-09-23		.txt	text/plain	5473	233	58	Our results indicate small towns are proportionally more affected by COVID-19 during the initial spread of the disease, such that the cumulative numbers of cases and deaths per capita initially decrease with population size. However, during the long-term course of the pandemic, this urban advantage vanishes and large cities start to exhibit higher incidence of cases and deaths, such that every 1% rise in population is associated with a 0.14% increase in the number of fatalities per capita after about four months since the first two daily deaths. Investigating whether this behavior generalizes to other places and how different quantities such as the number of cases and deaths scale with city size are thus important elements for a better understanding of the spreading of COVID-19 in urban areas. To test for an increasing urban advantage for the treatment of COVID-19 during the initial spread of the disease, we investigate the scaling relation between the number of hospital intensive care unit (ICU) beds and city population.	./cache/cord-315343-ywgoqlxj.txt	./txt/cord-315343-ywgoqlxj.txt