Weather Conditions and COVID-19 Incidence in a Cold Climate: A Time-Series Study in Finland

• Published in: Frontiers in Public Health
• Main Authors: Heibati, Behzad, Wang, Wenge, Ryti, Niilo R. I., Dominici, Francesca, Ducatman, Alan, Zhang, Zhijie, Jaakkola, Jouni J. K.
• Other Authors: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Gam; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.605128; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.605128/full

Background: The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading globally at an accelerated rate. There is some previous evidence that weather may influence the incidence of COVID-19 infection. We assessed the role of meteorological factors including temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH...