ArticlePloS one2022
The effects of indoor temperature and humidity on local transmission of COVID-19 and how it relates to global trends.
Article in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Dependence on relative humidity in the formation of reactive oxygen species in water droplets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Built Environment and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Long-Term Care Facilities: Cross-Sectional Survey and Data Linkage.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2024Article
- Associations between meteorological factors and COVID-19: a global scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant remains viable in environmental biofilms found in meat packaging plants.PloS one · 2024Article
- As air relative humidity increases, infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 decreases within water droplets.QRB discovery · 2024Article
- An overview of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and engineering strategies to mitigate risk.Journal of building engineering · 2023Review
- Exploring the Impact and Prevention of Epidemics from a New Perspective: COVID-19 Transmission through Express Boxes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, analyses on global data have not reached unanimous consensus on whether warmer and humid weather curbs the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We conjectured that this lack of consensus is due to the discrepancy between global environmental data such as temperature and humidity being collected outdoors, while most infections have been reported to occur indoors, where conditions can be different. Thus, we have methodologically investigated the effect of temperature and relative humidity on the spread of expired respiratory droplets from the mouth, which are assumed to be the main cause of most short-range infections. Calculating the trajectory of individual droplets using an experimentally validated evaporation model, the final height and distance of the evaporated droplets is obtained, and then correlated with global COVID-19 spread. Increase in indoor humidity is associated with reduction in COVID-19 spread, while temperature has no statistically significant effect.
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