Jamil Tahira, Alam Intikhab, Gojobori Takashi, Duarte Carlos M
Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Red Sea Research Centre (RSRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Front Public Health. 2020 Aug 26;8:436. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00436. eCollection 2020.
The pandemic of the COVID-19 extended from China across the north-temperate zone, and more recently to the tropics and southern hemisphere. The hypothesis that COVID-19 spread is temperature-dependent was tested based on data derived from nations across the world and provinces in China. No evidence of a pattern between spread rates and ambient temperature was found, suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 is unlikely to behave as a seasonal respiratory virus.
新冠疫情从中国蔓延至北半球温带地区,最近又扩散到热带地区和南半球。基于来自世界各国和中国各省的数据,对新冠病毒传播与温度相关这一假设进行了检验。未发现传播速率与环境温度之间存在某种模式的证据,这表明严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2不太可能表现为季节性呼吸道病毒。