ArticleEnvironmental research2023
Heat waves accelerate the spread of infectious diseases.
Article in Environmental research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Development of two-dimension epidemic prediction model.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2025Article
- Traffic-driven spatio-temporal prediction for fine-scale epidemic outbreaks in China.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- The occurrence of appendicitis varies according to latitudes and seasons: A French national retrospective study.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Confounding amplifies the effect of environmental factors on COVID-19.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2024Article
- Climate change, its impact on emerging infectious diseases and new technologies to combat the challenge.Emerging microbes & infections · 2024Review
- Power spectral density and similarity analysis of COVID-19 mortality waves across countries.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Disruption of outdoor activities caused by wildfires increases disease circulation.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Assessment of UV radiation effects on airborne mucormycetes and bacterial populations in a hospital environment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Environmental Crisis and the Emergence of the Oropouche: A Potential Public Health Problem.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2024Article
- The impact of climate change on maternal and child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: A five-year (2020-2024) scoping review.The journal of climate change and healthReview
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Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic appeared summer surge in 2022 worldwide and this contradicts its seasonal fluctuations. Even as high temperature and intense ultraviolet radiation can inhibit viral activity, the number of new cases worldwide has increased to >78% in only 1 month since the summer of 2022 under unchanged virus mutation influence and control policies. Using the attribution analysis based on the theoretical infectious diseases model simulation, we found the mechanism of the severe COVID-19 outbreak in the summer of 2022 and identified the amplification effect of heat wave events on its magnitude. The results suggest that approximately 69.3% of COVID-19 cases this summer could have been avoided if there is no heat waves. The collision between the pandemic and the heatwave is not an accident. Climate change is leading to more frequent extreme climate events and an increasing number of infectious diseases, posing an urgent threat to human health and life. Therefore, public health authorities must quickly develop coordinated management plans to deal with the simultaneous occurrence of extreme climate events and infectious diseases.
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