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ArticleActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2021

Assessment of weather and atmospheric pollution as a co-factor in the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

José Gonçalves, Tom Koritnik, Metka Paragi

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Article in Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Surface contamination with SARS-CoV-2: A systematic review.The Science of the total environment · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

José Gonçalvesa:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:51:"National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food";}. zemcg5@gmail.com.
Tom KoritnikNational Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food. tom.koritnik@nlzoh.si.
Metka ParagiNational Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food. metka.paragi@nlzoh.si.
National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food · SI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

aimCOVID-19 is a persistent and ongoing global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Non-anthropogenic factors, such as weather conditions and air quality are possible predictors of respiratory diseases, such as COVID-19. Weather conditions may also be a direct cause of biological interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and humans and vary widely between regions. The course of an epidemic is determined by several factors, including demographic and environmental parameters, many of which have an unknown correlation with COVID-19. The goal of this study is to access the influence of ground surface particulate matter and weather parameters on the dissemination of COVID-19 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

methodsSpearman rank correlation was used to investigate the association between new daily COVID-19 cases and weather data.

resultsThe current study has found correlations between weather variables and PM particles with new cases of COVID-19.

conclusionsThe correlations observed are highly dependent on the local policies that were in force during the period under study. The interaction between weather conditions and human behaviour may also be an important factor in understanding the relationship between weather and the spread of COVID -19.

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Air PollutionCOVID-19HumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Weather

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PMID34212907
PMCPMC8343727
OpenAlexW3175255075

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