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Impact of meteorological parameters on COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive study from Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now been declared a global public health disaster with no currently available vaccine. This study was undertaken to analyse the effect of meteorological parameters such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed on the spread of ongoing COVID-19...

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Autores principales: Alkhowailed, Mohammad, Shariq, Ali, Alqossayir, Fuhaid, Alzahrani, Osama A., Rasheed, Zafar, Al Abdulmonem, Waleed
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Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32875061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2020.100418
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author Alkhowailed, Mohammad
Shariq, Ali
Alqossayir, Fuhaid
Alzahrani, Osama A.
Rasheed, Zafar
Al Abdulmonem, Waleed
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Alqossayir, Fuhaid
Alzahrani, Osama A.
Rasheed, Zafar
Al Abdulmonem, Waleed
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description BACKGROUND: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now been declared a global public health disaster with no currently available vaccine. This study was undertaken to analyse the effect of meteorological parameters such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed on the spread of ongoing COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: The COVID-19 dashboard for five major cities of Saudi Arabia - Riyadh, Makah, Jeddah, Medina and Dammam was used for data collection. The data on weather were collected from the Weather Underground Company (IBM business GA, USA, 2020). The data were analysed by Spearman's rank correlations using JASP statistical software in two main sections. In the first section the data on COVID-19 from cities were combined to analyse the overall picture of COVID-19 and in the second section, different meteorological parameters such as temperature, humidity and wind speed were analysed. RESULTS: Novel data revealed interesting facts on the spreading of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia, the data showed that the number of COVID-19 positive cases increases due to the decrease of temperature or humidity, whereas an average decrease in the wind speed was also found to be associated with an elevation of the number of positive cases. CONCLUSIONS: This study determined the impact meteorological factors on the infectivity rate of COVID-19. An inverse association was found between the meteorological parameters with the spreading of COIVD-19. Therefore, this study directs the health authorities to implement specific measures against the spreading of this global pandemic based on weather patterns.
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spelling pubmed-74532682020-08-28 Impact of meteorological parameters on COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive study from Saudi Arabia Alkhowailed, Mohammad Shariq, Ali Alqossayir, Fuhaid Alzahrani, Osama A. Rasheed, Zafar Al Abdulmonem, Waleed Inform Med Unlocked Article BACKGROUND: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now been declared a global public health disaster with no currently available vaccine. This study was undertaken to analyse the effect of meteorological parameters such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed on the spread of ongoing COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: The COVID-19 dashboard for five major cities of Saudi Arabia - Riyadh, Makah, Jeddah, Medina and Dammam was used for data collection. The data on weather were collected from the Weather Underground Company (IBM business GA, USA, 2020). The data were analysed by Spearman's rank correlations using JASP statistical software in two main sections. In the first section the data on COVID-19 from cities were combined to analyse the overall picture of COVID-19 and in the second section, different meteorological parameters such as temperature, humidity and wind speed were analysed. RESULTS: Novel data revealed interesting facts on the spreading of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia, the data showed that the number of COVID-19 positive cases increases due to the decrease of temperature or humidity, whereas an average decrease in the wind speed was also found to be associated with an elevation of the number of positive cases. CONCLUSIONS: This study determined the impact meteorological factors on the infectivity rate of COVID-19. An inverse association was found between the meteorological parameters with the spreading of COIVD-19. Therefore, this study directs the health authorities to implement specific measures against the spreading of this global pandemic based on weather patterns. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020 2020-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7453268/ /pubmed/32875061 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2020.100418 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Impact of meteorological parameters on COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive study from Saudi Arabia
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title_fullStr Impact of meteorological parameters on COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive study from Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Impact of meteorological parameters on COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive study from Saudi Arabia
title_short Impact of meteorological parameters on COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive study from Saudi Arabia
title_sort impact of meteorological parameters on covid-19 pandemic: a comprehensive study from saudi arabia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32875061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2020.100418
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