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SUBMITTER: Spada A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8052355 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spada Alessia A Tucci Francesco Antonio FA Ummarino Aldo A Ciavarella Paolo Pio PP Calà Nicholas N Troiano Vincenzo V Caputo Michele M Ianzano Raffaele R Corbo Silvia S de Biase Marco M Fascia Nicola N Forte Chiara C Gambacorta Giorgio G Maccione Gabriele G Prencipe Giuseppina G Tomaiuolo Michele M Tucci Antonio A
Scientific reports 20210416 1
Climate seems to influence the spread of SARS-CoV-2, but the findings of the studies performed so far are conflicting. To overcome these issues, we performed a global scale study considering 134,871 virologic-climatic-demographic data (209 countries, first 16 weeks of the pandemic). To analyze the relation among COVID-19, population density, and climate, a theoretical path diagram was hypothesized and tested using structural equation modeling (SEM), a powerful statistical technique for the evalu ...[more]