id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-194766-binlxvvc Kokubun, Keisuke Social capital may mediate the relationship between social distance and COVID-19 prevalence 2020-07-20 .txt text/plain 3202 169 41 In connection with the coronal disaster this time, studies that analyzed GPS information in the United States showed that residents in counties with high social capital were more cooperative in going out regulations (Borgonovi & Andrieu, 2020) and reduced the increase of coronavirus infection (Varshney & Socher, 2020) . However, to the best of my knowledge, no studies have shown that even if the effects of population density (social distance) are removed, there is a negative correlation between high social capital and coronavirus infection rates. The results in this paper show that the negative correlation between social capital and infection rates is still statistically significant in controlling population density. Besides, controlling the relationship between variables by mean age showed that social capital had a greater correlation with infection rate than population density. Besides, controlling the relationship between variables by mean age showed that social capital had a greater correlation with infection rate than population density. ./cache/cord-194766-binlxvvc.txt ./txt/cord-194766-binlxvvc.txt