Effects of temperature variation and humidity on the death of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China
By Yueling Ma, Yadong Zhao, Jiangtao Liu, Xiaotao He, Bo Wang, Shihua Fu, Jun Yan, Jingping Niu, Ji Zhou, B. Luo. Science of the Total Environment, 2020
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Meteorological parameters are the important factors influencing the infectious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and influenza. This study aims to explore the association between Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths and weather parameters. In this study, we collected the daily death numbers of COVID-19, meteorological parameters and air pollutant data from 20 January 2020 to 29 February 2020 in Wuhan, China. Generalized additive model was applied to explore the effect of temperature, humidity and diurnal temperature range on the daily death counts of COVID-19. There were 2299 COVID-19 death counts in Wuhan during the study period. A positive association with COVID-19 daily death counts was observed for diurnal temperature range (r = 0.44), but negative association for relative humidity (r = −0.32). In addition, one unit increase in diurnal temperature range was only associated with a 2.92% (95% CI: 0.61%, 5.28%) increase in COVID-19 deaths in lag 3. However, both 1 unit increase of temperature and absolute humidity were related to the decreased COVID-19 death in lag 3 and lag 5, with the greatest decrease both in lag 3 [−7.50% (95% CI: −10.99%, −3.88%) and −11.41% (95% CI: −19.68%, −2.29%)]. In summary, this study suggests the temperature variation and humidity may also be important factors affecting the COVID-19 mortality.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Modeling and Simulation
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Citations in the corpus
- Effects of temperature and humidity on the daily new cases and new deaths of COVID-19 in 166 countries (2020, neutral): “(Ma et al., 2020).”
- Correlation between climate indicators and COVID-19 pandemic in New York, USA (2020, background): “Ma et al. (2020) suggested that humidity and temperature will play an important role in mortality rate from COVID-19 as climate indicators and temperature correlate with the spread of COVID-19 (Poole, 2020).”
- Spatial analysis and GIS in the study of COVID-19. A review (2020, background): “In late March, another paper appeared that explored the association between deaths from COVID-19 and daytime temperature ranges and relative humidity in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic (Ma et al., 2020).”
- Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 infection: Evidence from China (2020, positive): “…generalized additive model (GAM) is a useful method to examine the effects of meteorological factors and air pollution on health onfirmed cases in each city as of February 29, 2020. outcomes (Lin et al., 2018; Ma et al., 2020; Peng et al., 2006; Talmoudi et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2020).”
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic, energy-environment and transport sector globally and sustainable development goal (SDG) (2021, neutral): “A positive association with COVID-19 daily death counts during the diurnal temperature range (r = 0.44) and, a negative association for relative humidity (r = − 0.32) was observed (Ma et al., 2020).”