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Impact of Selected Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Incidence in Southern Finland during 2020–2021
We modelled the impact of selected meteorological factors on the daily number of new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa in southern Finland from August 2020 until May 2021. We applied a DLNM (distributed lag non-linear model) with and wi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293991 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013398 |
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author | Haga, Lisa Ruuhela, Reija Auranen, Kari Lakkala, Kaisa Heikkilä, Anu Gregow, Hilppa |
author_facet | Haga, Lisa Ruuhela, Reija Auranen, Kari Lakkala, Kaisa Heikkilä, Anu Gregow, Hilppa |
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description | We modelled the impact of selected meteorological factors on the daily number of new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa in southern Finland from August 2020 until May 2021. We applied a DLNM (distributed lag non-linear model) with and without various environmental and non-environmental confounding factors. The relationship between the daily mean temperature or absolute humidity and COVID-19 morbidity shows a non-linear dependency, with increased incidence of COVID-19 at low temperatures between 0 to −10 °C or at low absolute humidity (AH) values below 6 g/m(3). However, the outcomes need to be interpreted with caution, because the associations found may be valid only for the study period in 2020–2021. Longer study periods are needed to investigate whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has a seasonal pattern similar such as influenza and other viral respiratory infections. The influence of other non-environmental factors such as various mitigation measures are important to consider in future studies. Knowledge about associations between meteorological factors and COVID-19 can be useful information for policy makers and the education and health sector to predict and prepare for epidemic waves in the coming winters. |
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spelling | pubmed-96031272022-10-27 Impact of Selected Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Incidence in Southern Finland during 2020–2021 Haga, Lisa Ruuhela, Reija Auranen, Kari Lakkala, Kaisa Heikkilä, Anu Gregow, Hilppa Int J Environ Res Public Health Article We modelled the impact of selected meteorological factors on the daily number of new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa in southern Finland from August 2020 until May 2021. We applied a DLNM (distributed lag non-linear model) with and without various environmental and non-environmental confounding factors. The relationship between the daily mean temperature or absolute humidity and COVID-19 morbidity shows a non-linear dependency, with increased incidence of COVID-19 at low temperatures between 0 to −10 °C or at low absolute humidity (AH) values below 6 g/m(3). However, the outcomes need to be interpreted with caution, because the associations found may be valid only for the study period in 2020–2021. Longer study periods are needed to investigate whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has a seasonal pattern similar such as influenza and other viral respiratory infections. The influence of other non-environmental factors such as various mitigation measures are important to consider in future studies. Knowledge about associations between meteorological factors and COVID-19 can be useful information for policy makers and the education and health sector to predict and prepare for epidemic waves in the coming winters. MDPI 2022-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9603127/ /pubmed/36293991 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013398 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Haga, Lisa Ruuhela, Reija Auranen, Kari Lakkala, Kaisa Heikkilä, Anu Gregow, Hilppa Impact of Selected Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Incidence in Southern Finland during 2020–2021 |
title | Impact of Selected Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Incidence in Southern Finland during 2020–2021 |
title_full | Impact of Selected Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Incidence in Southern Finland during 2020–2021 |
title_fullStr | Impact of Selected Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Incidence in Southern Finland during 2020–2021 |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Selected Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Incidence in Southern Finland during 2020–2021 |
title_short | Impact of Selected Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Incidence in Southern Finland during 2020–2021 |
title_sort | impact of selected meteorological factors on covid-19 incidence in southern finland during 2020–2021 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293991 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013398 |
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