AUTHOR=Jamil Tahira , Alam Intikhab , Gojobori Takashi , Duarte Carlos M. TITLE=No Evidence for Temperature-Dependence of the COVID-19 Epidemic JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health VOLUME=8 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00436 DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2020.00436 ISSN=2296-2565 ABSTRACT=

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.