Socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study”

Phosri et al., commented on our previous study about the influence of climate variables at the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Spain. They showed the impact of the association of gross domestic product (GDP) with the cumulative COVID-19 incidence per 10(5) inhabitants in our country and the...

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Autores principales: Cacho, Pedro Muñoz, Hernández, José L., López-Hoyos, Marcos, Martínez-Taboada, Víctor M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor Response
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7891120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33602215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00702-5
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author Cacho, Pedro Muñoz
Hernández, José L.
López-Hoyos, Marcos
Martínez-Taboada, Víctor M.
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description Phosri et al., commented on our previous study about the influence of climate variables at the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Spain. They showed the impact of the association of gross domestic product (GDP) with the cumulative COVID-19 incidence per 10(5) inhabitants in our country and the rise of several methodologic issues. Here we discussed the main advantages and disadvantages of ecological studies and we advocate to test the hypothesis created in this type of studies using individual-level research designs.
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spelling pubmed-78911202021-02-19 Socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study” Cacho, Pedro Muñoz Hernández, José L. López-Hoyos, Marcos Martínez-Taboada, Víctor M. Environ Health Letter to the Editor Response Phosri et al., commented on our previous study about the influence of climate variables at the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Spain. They showed the impact of the association of gross domestic product (GDP) with the cumulative COVID-19 incidence per 10(5) inhabitants in our country and the rise of several methodologic issues. Here we discussed the main advantages and disadvantages of ecological studies and we advocate to test the hypothesis created in this type of studies using individual-level research designs. BioMed Central 2021-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7891120/ /pubmed/33602215 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00702-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor Response
Cacho, Pedro Muñoz
Hernández, José L.
López-Hoyos, Marcos
Martínez-Taboada, Víctor M.
Socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study”
title Socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study”
title_full Socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study”
title_fullStr Socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study”
title_full_unstemmed Socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study”
title_short Socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the SPANISH regions?: an ecological study”
title_sort socio-economic factors do also matter: comments on the article “can climatic factors explain the differences in covid-19 incidence and severity across the spanish regions?: an ecological study”
topic Letter to the Editor Response
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7891120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33602215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00702-5
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