James D. Ford et al.: Interactions between climate and COVID-19, in: The Lancet Planetary Health Vol. 6,Issue 10 (October 2022) p. e825-e833, online in: https://www.doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00174-7. Abstract In their Personal View, the authors explain the ways that climatic risks affect the transmission, perception, response, and lived experience of COVID-19. First, temperature, wind, and humidity influence the transmission of COVID-19 in ways not fully understood, although non-climatic factors appear more important than climatic factors in explaining disease transmission. Second, climatic extremes coinciding with COVID-19 have affected disease exposure, increased susceptibility of people to COVID-19, compromised emergency responses, and reduced health system resilience […]
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