@marfcg Clima explicou <1% da variação (entre países) para a variável "taxa maxima de expansão". Estudo publicado em agosto, na revista PeerJ, pelo grupo de José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho https://t.co/8IQI3h7auS
During the early days of the Covid19 pandemics, before country lockdowns, international connectivity was the main factor explaining where outbreaks would appear https://t.co/vKEJgwDGmR
Climate is not the answer to this pandemic driven by people's movement and behavior.
Coelho et al. @ufg_oficial found that population size and global connections, represented by countries’ importance in the global air transportation network, are the main explanations for the early growth rate of COVID-19. Read full @thePeerJ article https://t.co/lewmK8N5i3 #covid
"...the current claims that the growth rate of COVID-19 may be lower in warmer and humid countries should be taken very carefully, risking to disturb well-established and effective policy of social isolation that may help to avoid higher mortality rates."
https://t.co/82woGFzHRU