Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40925557›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025

Seasonal variation in SARS-CoV-2 transmission in The Netherlands, 2020-2022: statistical evidence for an inverse association with solar radiation and temperature.

Don Klinkenberg, Jantien Backer, Chantal Reusken, Jacco Wallinga

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Don KlinkenbergCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9449-6873
Jantien BackerCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4169-5665
Chantal ReuskenCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4605-9174
Jacco WallingaCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1725-5627

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In temperate regions, respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 are better transmitted in winter than in summer. Understanding how the weather is associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility can enhance projections of COVID-19 incidence and improve estimation of the effectiveness of control measures. During the pandemic, transmissibility was tracked by the reproduction number

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2SeasonsSunlightTemperatureHumansNetherlandsinfectious disease transmissionrespiratory tract infectionsSARS-CoV-2seasonsweather

Identifiers

PMID40925557
PMCPMC12419880

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