{"id":6637,"date":"2020-05-05T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T22:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:13:11","slug":"effects-of-temperature-and-humidity-on-the-daily-new-cases-and-new-deaths-of-covid-19-in-166-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/05\/effects-of-temperature-and-humidity-on-the-daily-new-cases-and-new-deaths-of-covid-19-in-166-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Temperature and Humidity on the Daily New Cases and New Deaths of COVID-19 in 166 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wu et al<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0apply a statistical model to investigate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">temperature and relative humidity\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as predictors of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">new\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cases and deaths\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0166 countries (excluding China)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">through<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0March 27, 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">y<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0control for<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0wind speed, median age of the national population, Global Health Security Index, Human Development Index<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and population density<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0as potential confounders<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Temperature and relative humidity were both\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">inversely\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">associated with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">new cases and deaths. These findings provide preliminary evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic may be partially suppressed\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0temperature and humidity\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">increase<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0However, during the study period, settings where temperatures were rising overlapped with settings where epidemics were waning, either naturally or in response to public health measures.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wu et al. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Apr<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">il 28,<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a02020). Effects of Temperature and Humidity on the Daily New Cases and New Deaths of COVID-19 in 166 Countries. The Science of the Total Environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.139051\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.139051<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wu et al.\u00a0apply a statistical model to investigate\u00a0temperature and relative humidity\u00a0as predictors of\u00a0new\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0cases and deaths\u00a0in\u00a0166 countries (excluding China)\u00a0through\u00a0March 27, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0They\u00a0control for\u00a0wind speed, median age of the national population, Global Health Security Index, Human Development Index,\u00a0and population density\u00a0as potential confounders.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Temperature and relative humidity were both\u00a0inversely\u00a0associated with\u00a0new cases and deaths. These findings provide preliminary evidence that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/05\/effects-of-temperature-and-humidity-on-the-daily-new-cases-and-new-deaths-of-covid-19-in-166-countries\/\">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-6637","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\/6637","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=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}