Health impacts of daily weather fluctuations: Empirical evidence from COVID-19 in U.S. counties.

ABSTRACT: The emergence of the novel coronavirus has necessitated immense research efforts to understand how several non-environmental and environmental factors affect transmission. With the United States leading the path in terms of case incidence, it is important to investigate how weather variables influence the spread of the disease in the country. This paper assembles a detailed and comprehensive dataset comprising COVID-19 cases and climatological variables for all counties in the continental U.S. and uses a developed econometric approach to estimate the causal effect of certain weather factors on the growth rate of infection. The results indicate a non-linear and significant negative relationship between the individual weather measures and the growth rate of COVID-19 in the U.S. Specifically,

SUBMITTER: Emediegwu LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8064870 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature