{"id":4355,"date":"2020-02-18T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:38:28","slug":"the-role-of-absolute-humidity-on-transmission-rates-of-the-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/18\/the-role-of-absolute-humidity-on-transmission-rates-of-the-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of absolute humidity on transmission rates of the COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers evaluated absolute humidity and transmission of COVID-19. They found that high humidity will not necessarily limit the survival and transmission of the virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sustained and exponential disease transmission can occur across a range of humidity conditions. Thus, changes in weather will likely not lead to reduced case counts without extensive public health interventions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luo et al. (Feb 17, 2020). The role of absolute humidity on transmission rates of the COVID-19 outbreak. Pre-print downloaded Feb 18 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.12.20022467\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.12.20022467<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers evaluated absolute humidity and transmission of COVID-19. They found that high humidity will not necessarily limit the survival and transmission of the virus.\u00a0 Sustained and exponential disease transmission can occur across a range of humidity conditions. Thus, changes in weather will likely not lead to reduced case counts without extensive public health interventions.\u00a0 Luo&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/18\/the-role-of-absolute-humidity-on-transmission-rates-of-the-covid-19-outbreak\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}