Seasonality of Non-SARS, Non-MERS Coronaviruses and the Impact of Meteorological Factors.
Olympia Evdoxia AnastasiouAnika HüsingJohannes KorthFotis TheodoropoulosChristian TaubeKarl-Heinz JöckelAndreas StangUlf DittmerPublished in: Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
Coronavirus infections followed a seasonal pattern, which was more pronounced in immunocompetent patients compared to immunosuppressed patients. Several meteorological factors were associated with the coronavirus detection rate. However, when mutually adjusting for all weather factors, only temperature, relative humidity, precipitation and cloud cover contributed independently to predicting the coronavirus detection rate.