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. 2020 Sep 20:736:138763.
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138763. Epub 2020 May 22.

Role of a habitat's air humidity in Covid-19 mortality

Irina V Biktasheva  1
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Role of a habitat's air humidity in Covid-19 mortality

Irina V Biktasheva. Sci Total Environ. .

Abstract

Transient local over-dry environment might be a contributor and an explanation for the observed asynchronous local rises in Covid-19 mortality. We propose that a habitat's air humidity negatively correlate with Covid-19 morbidity and mortality, and support this hypothesis on the example of publicly available data from German federal states.

Keywords: Air humidity; COVID-19 mortality; Habitat; Negative correlation.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest The author declares that she has no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Air humidity in March vs Covid-19 mortality in German federal states (circles). The size of the circles is proportional to the population of the federal state; the labels are abbreviations for the largest cities of the federal lands. Red solid line shows the linear regression. Theil-Sen regression is shown with the blue dashed line.
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