OSHA Complaints and COVID-19

This repository stores the code which was used to render figures and analyses for the COVID-19: US Federal accountability for entry, spread, and inequities—lessons for the future manuscript.

Authors: William P. Hanage¹, Christian Testa², Jarvis T. Chen², Letitia Davis³, Elise Pechter³, Peg Seminario⁴ Mauricio Santillana⁵ and Nancy Krieger²

1. Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.

2. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.

3. Consultant, Boston, MA USA.

4. AFL-CIO (retired), Washington DC USA.

5. Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA.

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The first two figures are produced by the scripts in inst/figures/.

The R package contained herein standardizes the methods to load the OSHA complaints and clean the data.

Figure 1. National OSHA complaints and COVID—19 deaths per million (7 Day Average), January 16-September 18, 2020

Figure 2. Heatmaps showing the lagged correlations between OSHA complaint volume and COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 deaths, nationally and by US region, January 16, 2020 – September 30, 2020.