Back

Regional Determinants Of The Expansion Of COVID-19 In Brazil

Rodrigues, W.; Prata, D. N.; Camargo, W.

2020-04-17 health policy
10.1101/2020.04.13.20063925 medRxiv
Show abstract

ObjectiveThis study investigates the regional differences in the occurrence of COVID-19 in Brazil and its relationship with climatic and demographic factors by use data from February 26 to April 04, 2020. Methods: A Polynomial Regression Model with cubic adjustments of the number of days of contagion, demographic density, city population and climatic factors was designed and used to explain the spread of COVID-19 in Brazil. Main resultsIt was evidenced that temperature variation maintains a relationship with the reduction in the number of cases of COVID-19. A variation -3.4% in the number of COVID-19 cases was found for each increase of 1 {degrees} C. ConclusionThere are evidences that the temperature, has a relative effect in the variation in the number of COVID-19s researched cases. For the reason, it recommends this relationship deserves to be investigated in other tests with more extended time series, wide and with especially non-linear data adjustments.

Matching journals

The top 2 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

50% of probability mass above

"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.