Institutional Repository of Coll Civil Engn
| Impact of meteorological factors on the COVID-19 transmission: A multi-city study in China | |
Liu, Jiangtao1; Zhou, Ji2; Yao, Jinxi3; Zhang, Xiuxia4 ; Li, Lanyu1; Xu, Xiaocheng1; He, Xiaotao1; Wang, Bo1; Fu, Shihua1; Niu, Tingting1,2
| |
| 2020-07-15 | |
| Source Publication | Science of the Total Environment
 |
| Volume | 726 |
| Publisher | Elsevier B.V., Netherlands |
| Abstract | The purpose of the present study is to explore the associations between novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case counts and meteorological factors in 30 provincial capital cities of China. We compiled a daily dataset including confirmed case counts, ambient temperature (AT), diurnal temperature range (DTR), absolute humidity (AH) and migration scale index (MSI) for each city during the period of January 20th to March 2nd, 2020. First, we explored the associations between COVID-19 confirmed case counts, meteorological factors, and MSI using non-linear regression. Then, we conducted a two-stage analysis for 17 cities with more than 50 confirmed cases. In the first stage, generalized linear models with negative binomial distribution were fitted to estimate city-specific effects of meteorological factors on confirmed case counts. In the second stage, the meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the pooled effects. Our results showed that among 13 cities that have less than 50 confirmed cases, 9 cities locate in the Northern China with average AT below 0 °C, 12 cities had average AH below 4 g/m3, and one city (Haikou) had the highest AH (14.05 g/m3). Those 17 cities with 50 and more cases accounted for 90.6% of all cases in our study. Each 1 °C increase in AT and DTR was related to the decline of daily confirmed case counts, and the corresponding pooled RRs were 0.80 (95% CI: 0.75, 0.85) and 0.90 (95% CI: 0.86, 0.95), respectively. For AH, the association with COVID-19 case counts were statistically significant in lag 07 and lag 014. In addition, we found the all these associations increased with accumulated time duration up to 14 days. In conclusions, meteorological factors play an independent role in the COVID-19 transmission after controlling population migration. Local weather condition with low temperature, mild diurnal temperature range and low humidity likely favor the transmission. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. |
| Keyword | Population dynamics TemperatureAbsolute humidity Diurnal temperature ranges Generalized linear model Local weather conditions Meteorological factors Negative binomial distribution Non-linear regression Two-stage analysis |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138513 |
| Indexed By | EI |
| Language | 英语 |
| EI Accession Number | 20201608422010 |
| EI Keywords | Transmissions |
| ISSN | 00489697 |
| Source library | Compendex |
| Classification code | 602.2 Mechanical Transmissions - 641.1 Thermodynamics - 971 Social Sciences |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 会议论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.lut.edu.cn/handle/2XXMBERH/132723 |
| Collection | 土木工程学院 |
| Affiliation | 1.Institute of Occupational Health and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou; Gansu; 730000, China; 2.Shanghai Key Laboratory of Meteorology and Health, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau, Shanghai; 200030, China; 3.Gansu Provincial Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control, Lanzhou; Gansu; 730000, China; 4.College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou; Gansu; 730000, China; 5.Department of General Surgery, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou; Gansu; 730000, China; 6.Institute of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou; Gansu; 730000, China; 7.Hebei Climate Centre, Hebei Meteorological Bureau, Shijiazhuang; Hebei; 050021, China; 8.Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, City University of New York, New York; NY; 10026, United States; 9.Shanghai Typhoon Institute, China Meteorological Administration, Shanghai; 200030, China; 10.Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston; TX; 77030, United States; |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Liu, Jiangtao,Zhou, Ji,Yao, Jinxi,et al. Impact of meteorological factors on the COVID-19 transmission: A multi-city study in China[C]:Elsevier B.V., Netherlands,2020. |
| Files in This Item: | There are no files associated with this item. | |||||
Items in the repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Edit Comment