COVID-19 seasonality in temperate countries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

While the beneficial effect of vaccination, restrictive measures, and social distancing in reducing mortality due to SARS-CoV-2 is intuitive and taken for granted, seasonality (predictable fluctuation or pattern that recurs or repeats over a one-year period) is still poorly understood and insufficiently taken into consideration. We aimed to examine SARS-CoV-2 seasonality in countries with temperate climate.

Methods

We identified countries with temperate climate and extracted average country temperature data from the National Center for Environmental information and from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal. We obtained mortality and vaccination rates from an open access database. We used the stringency index derived from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tr

SUBMITTER: D'Amico F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8692239 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature