3 ms·
I was looking at the temp and humidity of cities effected and most were in the under 20C 50% humidity band. Maybe sunny weather makes a diff given the vitamin D
by ps07 7y ago
I was looking at the temp and humidity of cities effected and most were in the under 20C 50% humidity band. Maybe sunny weather makes a diff given the vitamin D connection.
- troydavis 7y agoHere’s an analysis of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22563932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22563932 (“High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19”): > One degree Celsius increase in temperature and one percent increase in relative humidity lower R by 0.0383 and 0.0224, respectively.
- feanaro 7y agoUnfortunately, if you take a look at figure 3 in that paper, you'll see that correlation is extremely weak and the non-zero coefficients almost entirely driven by a single outlier.
- ankit219 7y agoThat would be bad news for UK and could be good news for India, Indonesia, and some African and South American countries
- fnord123 7y agoIt's quite obviously spicy food that helps the most. Or rather its my excuse to eat everything spicy for the next month.