Back
Weather variables impact on COVID-19 incidence
Corripio, J. G.; Raso, L.
2020-06-09
epidemiology
10.1101/2020.06.08.20125377
medRxiv
Show abstract
We test the hypothesis of COVID-19 contagion being influenced by meteorological parameters such as temperature or humidity. We analysed data at high spatial resolution (regions in Italy and counties in the USA) and found that while at low resolution this might seem the case, at higher resolution no correlation is found. Our results are consistent with a poor outdoors transmission of the disease. However, a possible indirect correlation between good weather and a decrease in disease spread may occur, as people spend longer time outdoors.
Matching journals
●Non-profit
◐University press
○Commercial
The top 3 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.
1
Scientific Reports
○
3102 papers in training set
Top 0.1%
41.3%
2
PLOS ONE
●
4510 papers in training set
Top 23%
7.5%
3
Royal Society Open Science
●
193 papers in training set
Top 0.4%
4.2%
50% of probability mass above
4
Epidemiology and Infection
◐
84 papers in training set
Top 0.4%
3.8%
5
The European Physical Journal Plus
○
13 papers in training set
Top 0.3%
2.2%
6
PLOS Computational Biology
●
1633 papers in training set
Top 13%
2.2%
7
Biology
○
43 papers in training set
Top 0.6%
1.8%
8
GeoHealth
●
10 papers in training set
Top 0.3%
1.6%
9
Nature Communications
○
4913 papers in training set
Top 53%
1.6%
10
Peer Community Journal
●
254 papers in training set
Top 2%
1.6%
11
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
○
126 papers in training set
Top 2%
1.6%
12
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology
○
10 papers in training set
Top 0.1%
1.4%
13
Epidemics
○
104 papers in training set
Top 1%
1.4%
14
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
○
25 papers in training set
Top 0.6%
1.3%
15
BMC Public Health
○
147 papers in training set
Top 4%
1.3%
16
Swiss Medical Weekly
●
12 papers in training set
Top 0.1%
1.3%
17
PeerJ
◐
261 papers in training set
Top 10%
1.3%
18
BMC Infectious Diseases
○
118 papers in training set
Top 4%
1.3%
19
Journal of The Royal Society Interface
●
189 papers in training set
Top 4%
1.0%
20
Microorganisms
○
101 papers in training set
Top 1%
1.0%
21
One Health
○
29 papers in training set
Top 0.9%
0.9%
22
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
●
2130 papers in training set
Top 40%
0.9%
23
Science of The Total Environment
○
179 papers in training set
Top 4%
0.8%
24
Eurosurveillance
●
80 papers in training set
Top 1%
0.8%
25
Viruses
○
318 papers in training set
Top 5%
0.8%
26
Frontiers in Medicine
○
113 papers in training set
Top 6%
0.8%
27
Infectious Disease Modelling
○
50 papers in training set
Top 1%
0.8%
28
Frontiers in Physics
○
20 papers in training set
Top 0.9%
0.8%
29
Journal of Medical Internet Research
◐
85 papers in training set
Top 4%
0.8%
30
Journal of Medical Virology
○
137 papers in training set
Top 5%
0.5%