Primary and Secondary Syphilis Growth Rates Over Time

Growth Rates by County

Where are the counties with the highest growth rates located?

To answer this question we fit a Bayesian growth curve model to the data and extract the county-specific year coefficients. Random effects are included for each county to account for county-specific variation in growth rates.

Figure 1: Top 20 Counties with the Highest Primary and Secondary Syphilis Growth Rates

We can also examine this on the map

Figure 2: Year Over Year Growth Rate for Primary and Secondary Syphilis

See how these growth rates compare to the number of Syphilis testing locations in each county.