{"id":5678,"date":"2020-04-06T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:42:35","slug":"evidence-that-higher-temperatures-are-associated-with-lower-incidence-of-covid-19-in-pandemic-state-cumulative-cases-reported-up-to-march-27-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/evidence-that-higher-temperatures-are-associated-with-lower-incidence-of-covid-19-in-pandemic-state-cumulative-cases-reported-up-to-march-27-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence that higher temperatures are associated with lower incidence of COVID-19 in pandemic state, cumulative cases reported up to March 27, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Results from this study suggest there is some association between COVID-19 incidence and regions at or above 30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00b0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> latitude N (i.e. China- 31<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00b0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Italy- 41<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00b0)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and a breakpoint at 72.5\u00b0F at which a significant reduction of case rates was observed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the study does not confirm the COVID-19 cannot survive or transmit in warm and humid temperatures nor establish a causal connection between temperature and transmission, the southern hemisphere should expect increased case rates as the region moves from summer into fall and winter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Triplett (Apr 6, 2020). Evidence that higher temperatures are associated with lower incidence of COVID-19 in pandemic state, cumulative cases reported up to March 27, 2020. Pre-print downloaded Apr 6 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.31.20048652\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.31.20048652<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from this study suggest there is some association between COVID-19 incidence and regions at or above 30\u00b0 latitude N (i.e. China- 31\u00b0; Italy- 41\u00b0) and a breakpoint at 72.5\u00b0F at which a significant reduction of case rates was observed. While the study does not confirm the COVID-19 cannot survive or transmit in warm and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/evidence-that-higher-temperatures-are-associated-with-lower-incidence-of-covid-19-in-pandemic-state-cumulative-cases-reported-up-to-march-27-2020\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","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=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5679,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions\/5679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}