Meteorological impact on the COVID-19 pandemic: A study across eight severely affected regions in South America.

ABSTRACT: The role of meteorological factors in the transmission of the COVID-19 still needs to be determined. In this study, the daily new cases of the eight severely affected regions in four countries of South America and their corresponding meteorological data (average temperature, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, average wind speed, visibility, absolute humidity) were collected. Daily number of confirmed and incubative cases, as well as time-dependent reproductive number (R_t) was calculated to indicate the transmission of the diseases in the population. Spearman's correlation coefficients were assessed to show the correlation between meteorological factors and daily confirmed cases, daily incubative cases, as well as Rt. In particular, the results showed that there was a high

SUBMITTER: Zhu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7352107 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature