ArticleGeoHealth2022
Spatial Variation in Humidity and the Onset of Seasonal Influenza Across the Contiguous United States.
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- Temporal Association Among Influenza-Like Illness, Cardiovascular Events, and Vaccine Dose in Patients With High-Risk Cardiovascular Disease: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Links between influenza epidemics, weather characteristics and all-cause mortality in the Czech Republic, 1982-2020.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associative evidence for the potential of humidification as a non-pharmaceutical intervention for influenza and SARS-CoV-2 transmission.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2022Article
- The Earth-Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting.Earth and space science (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Spatial Variation in Humidity and the Onset of Seasonal Influenza Across the Contiguous United States.GeoHealth · 2022Article
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Abstract
In recent years, environmental factors, particularly humidity, have been used to inform influenza prediction models. This study aims to quantify the relationship between humidity and influenza incidence at the state-level in the contiguous United States. Piecewise segmented regressions were performed on specific humidity data from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and incident influenza estimates from Google Flu Trends to identify threshold values of humidity that signal the onset of an influenza outbreak. Our results suggest that influenza incidence increases after reaching a humidity threshold that is state-specific. A linear regression showed that the state-specific thresholds were associated with annual average humidity conditions (
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