{"id":5598,"date":"2020-04-01T14:32:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:33:50","slug":"no-evidence-for-temperature-dependence-of-the-covid-19-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/01\/no-evidence-for-temperature-dependence-of-the-covid-19-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"No Evidence for Temperature-Dependence of the COVID-19 Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jamil et al examined the relationship between the apparent exponential rate of SARSCoV-2 spread and the Basic Reproductive number of infection (R0) and the average daily temperature across the globe and Chinese provinces. The current distribution of the epidemic infers that SARS-CoV-2 does not behave as a seasonal respiratory virus and negates the speculation that the infection is temperature dependent, and will decline in severity with the advent of warmer spring and summer temperatures.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They found no evidence that spread rates will decline with temperatures above 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">C, an epidemiological factor to consider in warmer countries in the tropics with recent outbreaks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jamil et al. (Mar 29, 2020). No Evidence for Temperature-Dependence of the COVID-19 Epidemic. Pre-print downloaded Apr 1 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.29.20046706\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.29.20046706<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamil et al examined the relationship between the apparent exponential rate of SARSCoV-2 spread and the Basic Reproductive number of infection (R0) and the average daily temperature across the globe and Chinese provinces. The current distribution of the epidemic infers that SARS-CoV-2 does not behave as a seasonal respiratory virus and negates the speculation that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/01\/no-evidence-for-temperature-dependence-of-the-covid-19-epidemic\/\">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-5598","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\/5598","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=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5599,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}