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SUBMITTER: Chen S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7302306 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Simiao S Prettner Klaus K Kuhn Michael M Geldsetzer Pascal P Wang Chen C Bärnighausen Till T Bloom David E DE
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 20200605
Visual inspection of world maps shows that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is less prevalent in countries closer to the equator, where heat and humidity tend to be higher. Scientists disagree how to interpret this observation because the relationship between COVID-19 and climatic conditions may be confounded by many factors. We regress confirmed COVID-19 cases per million inhabitants in a country against the country's distance from the equator, controlling key confounding factors: air travel ...[more]