Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental United States

By Jeffrey Shaman, V. Pitzer, Cécile Viboud, Bryan T. Grenfell, Marc Lipsitch. PLoS Biology, 2010

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Here, the authors demonstrate that variations of absolute humidity explain both the onset of wintertime influenza transmission and the overarching seasonality of this pathogen in temperate regions.

Subfields: Information Systems, Management of Technology and Innovation

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• Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period (2020, background): “HCoV-OC43 and HCoV-HKU1 cause annual wintertime outbreaks of respiratory illness in temperate regions ( 9 , 10 ), suggesting that wintertime climate and host behaviors may facilitate transmission, as is true for influenza ( 11 – 13 ).”
• Evidence that Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths (2020, background): “influenza virus to survive longer outside the body than under warmer conditions [49], [50], [51].”
• Effects of temperature and humidity on the daily new cases and new deaths of COVID-19 in 166 countries (2020, positive): “An epidemiological model in the United States indicated that absolute humidity affected the seasonality of influenza incidence (Shaman et al., 2010).”
• Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections. (2020, background): “Human metapneumovirus circulation in the United States, 2008 to 2014.”