ArticleThe Science of the total environment2020
Effects of temperature variation and humidity on the death of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China.
Article in The Science of the total environment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05264948 (The Effect of Seasonal Factors on the Virulence and Mortality of COVID 19), which is not on this map. Cited by 405 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effect of Seasonal Factors on the Virulence and Mortality of COVID 19
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405 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The Effect of Ambient Environmental Conditions on COVID-19 Mortality: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
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Abstract
Meteorological parameters are the important factors influencing the infectious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and influenza. This study aims to explore the association between Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths and weather parameters. In this study, we collected the daily death numbers of COVID-19, meteorological parameters and air pollutant data from 20 January 2020 to 29 February 2020 in Wuhan, China. Generalized additive model was applied to explore the effect of temperature, humidity and diurnal temperature range on the daily death counts of COVID-19. There were 2299 COVID-19 death counts in Wuhan during the study period. A positive association with COVID-19 daily death counts was observed for diurnal temperature range (r = 0.44), but negative association for relative humidity (r = -0.32). In addition, one unit increase in diurnal temperature range was only associated with a 2.92% (95% CI: 0.61%, 5.28%) increase in COVID-19 deaths in lag 3. However, both 1 unit increase of temperature and absolute humidity were related to the decreased COVID-19 death in lag 3 and lag 5, with the greatest decrease both in lag 3 [-7.50% (95% CI: -10.99%, -3.88%) and -11.41% (95% CI: -19.68%, -2.29%)]. In summary, this study suggests the temperature variation and humidity may also be important factors affecting the COVID-19 mortality.
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