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. 2020 Jul:186:109553.
doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109553. Epub 2020 Apr 18.

Is temperature reducing the transmission of COVID-19 ?

Aurelio Tobías  1 , Tomás Molina  2
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Is temperature reducing the transmission of COVID-19 ?

Aurelio Tobías et al. Environ Res. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: Barcelona; COVID-19; Incidence rate; SARS-CoV-2; Spain; Temperature; Time-series regression.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Risk increase of daily incidence rate of positively diagnosed cases of COVID-19 for a rise of 1 °C of maximum temperature from lag 0 to lag 6.
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