Winter is coming: a southern hemisphere perspective of the environmental drivers of SARS-CoV-2 and the potential seasonality of COVID-19

AJ Smit, JM Fitchett, FA Engelbrecht… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 virus infections in humans were first reported in December 2019, the boreal
winter. The resulting COVID-19 pandemic was declared by the WHO in March 2020. By July …

Ecological niche modeling: an introduction for veterinarians and epidemiologists

LE Escobar - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Most infectious diseases in animals are not distributed randomly. Instead, diseases in
livestock and wildlife are predictable in terms of the geography, time, and species affected …

Temperature and population density influence SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the absence of nonpharmaceutical interventions

TP Smith, S Flaxman, AS Gallinat… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world, it is increasingly important to understand
the factors that influence its transmission. Seasonal variation driven by responses to …

Misconceptions about weather and seasonality must not misguide COVID-19 response

CJ Carlson, ACR Gomez, S Bansal, SJ Ryan - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Weather may marginally affect COVID-19 dynamics, but misconceptions about the way that
climate and weather drive exposure and transmission have adversely shaped risk …

Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies

RN Thompson, TD Hollingsworth… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Combinations of intense non-pharmaceutical interventions (lockdowns) were introduced
worldwide to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Many governments have begun to …

Global expansion of COVID-19 pandemic is driven by population size and airport connections

MTP Coelho, JFM Rodrigues, AM Medina, P Scalco… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
The pandemic state of COVID-19 caused by the SARS CoV-2 put the world in quarantine,
led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and is causing an unprecedented economic crisis …

Associations between meteorology and COVID-19 in early studies: Inconsistencies, uncertainties, and recommendations

GH Kerr, HS Badr, LM Gardner, J Perez-Saez… - One Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Meteorological variables, such as the ambient temperature and humidity, play a well-
established role in the seasonal transmission of respiratory viruses and influenza in …

Seasonality of endemic COVID-19

JP Townsend, HB Hassler, AD Lamb, P Sah… - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Successive waves of infection by SARS-CoV-2 have left little doubt that this virus will
transition to an endemic disease. Foreknowledge of when to expect seasonal surges is …

Containment measures limit environmental effects on COVID-19 early outbreak dynamics

GF Ficetola, D Rubolini - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental factors are well known to affect spatio-temporal patterns of infectious disease
outbreaks, but whether the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the globe is related to local …

Emerging contaminants: a One Health perspective

F Wang, L Xiang, KSY Leung, M Elsner, Y Zhang… - The Innovation, 2024 - cell.com
Environmental pollution is escalating due to rapid global development that often prioritizes
human needs over planetary health. Despite global efforts to mitigate legacy pollutants, the …