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Title: | Effects of demographic and weather parameters on COVID-19 basic reproduction number | Authors: | Salom, Igor Rodic, Andjela Milicevic, Ognjen Zigic, Dusan Djordjevic, Magdalena Djordjevic, Marko |
Keywords: | COVID-19 transmissibility;environmental factors;basic reproduction number;COVID-19 demographic dependence;COVID-19 weather dependence | Issue Date: | 25-Jan-2021 | Rank: | M21 | Journal: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | Volume: | 8 | Start page: | 617841 | Abstract: | Timely prediction of the COVID-19 progression is not possible without a comprehensive understanding of environmental factors that may affect the infection transmissibility. Studies addressing parameters that may influence COVID-19 progression relied on either the total numbers of detected cases and similar proxies and/or a small number of analyzed factors, including analysis of regions that display a narrow range of these parameters. We here apply a novel approach, exploiting widespread growth regimes in COVID-19 detected case counts. By applying nonlinear dynamics methods to the exponential regime, we extract basic reproductive number R0 (i.e., the measure of COVID-19 inherent biological transmissibility), applying to the completely naive population in the absence of social distancing, for 118 different countries. We then use bioinformatics methods to systematically collect data on a large number of demographics and weather parameters from these countries, and seek their correlations with the rate of COVID-19 spread. In addition to some of the already reported tendencies, we show a number of both novel results and those that help settle existing disputes: the absence of dependence on wind speed and air pressure, negative correlation with precipitation; significant positive correlation with society development level (human development index) irrespective of testing policies, and percent of the urban population, but an absence of correlation with population density per se. We find a strong positive correlation of transmissibility on alcohol consumption, and the absence of correlation on refugee numbers, contrary to some widespread beliefs. Significant tendencies with health-related factors are reported, including a detailed analysis of the blood type group showing consistent tendencies on Rh factor, and a strong positive correlation of transmissibility with cholesterol levels. |
URI: | https://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4162 | ISSN: | 2296-701X | DOI: | 10.3389/fevo.2020.617841 |
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