{"id":7503,"date":"2020-06-12T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:38:18","slug":"temperature-humidity-and-latitude-analysis-to-estimate-potential-spread-and-seasonality-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/12\/temperature-humidity-and-latitude-analysis-to-estimate-potential-spread-and-seasonality-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature, Humidity, and Latitude Analysis to Estimate Potential Spread and Seasonality of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"40\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sajadi et al. found that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cities<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with substantial community spread of COVID-19 were located along a restricted latitude<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0across different\u00a0continents<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and\u00a0had consistently similar weather patterns characterized by mean temperature between 5-11<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00b0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C and low humidity<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, compared with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">42\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cities without such spread<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. This is consistent with the behavior of a seasonal respiratory virus, and points to weather modeling as a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">possible\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">predict<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">or of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0high risk of community spread in space and time.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sajadi et al. (June 11, 2020). Temperature, Humidity, and Latitude Analysis to Estimate Potential Spread and Seasonality of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.11834\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.11834<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sajadi et al. found that\u00a08\u00a0cities\u00a0with substantial community spread of COVID-19 were located along a restricted latitude\u00a0across different\u00a0continents, and\u00a0had consistently similar weather patterns characterized by mean temperature between 5-11\u00b0C and low humidity, compared with\u00a042\u00a0cities without such spread. This is consistent with the behavior of a seasonal respiratory virus, and points to weather modeling as a\u00a0possible\u00a0predictor of\u00a0high&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/12\/temperature-humidity-and-latitude-analysis-to-estimate-potential-spread-and-seasonality-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-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-7503","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\/7503","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=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7504,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}