{"id":7029,"date":"2020-05-21T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:10:01","slug":"optimal-temperature-zone-for-the-dispersal-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/21\/optimal-temperature-zone-for-the-dispersal-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimal Temperature Zone for the Dispersal of COVID-19"},"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\">Huang et al. found 60% of confirmed\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cases\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">occurred in locations where the air temperature ranged from 5<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-15 degrees C (41-59 degrees F)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and 74% of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cases were concentrated in regions with absolute humidity of 3-10g\/m<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. These findings suggest that there<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0may be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an optimal climate in which of SARS-CoV-2 survives in the ambient environment (e.g. on surfaces).<\/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\">Huang et al. (May 16, 2020). Optimal Temperature Zone for the Dispersal of COVID-19. The Science of the Total Environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.139487\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.139487<\/span><\/a><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>Huang et al. found 60% of confirmed\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0cases\u00a0occurred in locations where the air temperature ranged from 5-15 degrees C (41-59 degrees F)\u00a0and 74% of\u00a0cases were concentrated in regions with absolute humidity of 3-10g\/m3. These findings suggest that there\u00a0may be\u00a0an optimal climate in which of SARS-CoV-2 survives in the ambient environment (e.g. on surfaces).\u00a0 Huang et al&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/21\/optimal-temperature-zone-for-the-dispersal-of-covid-19\/\">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-7029","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\/7029","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=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}