Is this just correlation or causation? Comments welcome. An excerpt:
To date, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has established significant community spread in cities and regions along a narrow east west distribution roughly along the 30-50o N’ corridor at consistently similar weather patterns consisting of average temperatures of 5-11oC, combined with low specific (3-6 g/kg) and absolute humidity (4-7 g/m3). There has been a lack of significant community establishment in expected locations that are based only on population proximity and extensive population interaction through travel.
Interpretation: The distribution of significant community outbreaks along restricted latitude, temperature, and humidity are consistent with the behavior of a seasonal respiratory virus.
It would be nice if these researchers are right. But do we have enough data points for generalization? The climate similarities between the most effected regions--from the Pacific Northwester to Wuhan to Japan to Iran and Northern Italy--is striking.
(Thanks to Edward Johnson for the pointer.)
