Effects of environmental conditions on COVID-19 morbidity as an example of multicausality: a multi-city case study in Italy.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), broke out in December 2019 in Wuhan city, in the Hubei province of China. Since then, it has spread practically all over the world, disrupting many human activities. In temperate climates overwhelming evidence indicates that its incidence increases significantly during the cold season. Italy was one of the first nations, in which COVID-19 reached epidemic proportions, already at the beginning of 2020. There is therefore enough data to perform a systematic investigation of the correlation between the spread of the virus and the environmental conditions. The objective of this study is the investigation of the relationship between the virus diffusion and the weather, including

SUBMITTER: Murari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10642182 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature