Published on in Vol 7, No 1 (2021): January

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/20495, first published .
The Influence of Average Temperature and Relative Humidity on New Cases of COVID-19: Time-Series Analysis

The Influence of Average Temperature and Relative Humidity on New Cases of COVID-19: Time-Series Analysis

The Influence of Average Temperature and Relative Humidity on New Cases of COVID-19: Time-Series Analysis

Zonglin He   1, 2 * , MBBS ;   Yiqiao Chin   2 * , MBBS ;   Shinning Yu   2 , MBBS ;   Jian Huang   3 , MPH, PhD ;   Casper J P Zhang   4 , MPH, PhD ;   Ke Zhu   1 , MBBS ;   Nima Azarakhsh   5 , PhD ;   Jie Sheng   6 , BA, MSc ;   Yi He   7 , BA, MSc ;   Pallavi Jayavanth   5 , PhD ;   Qian Liu   8 , PhD ;   Babatunde O Akinwunmi   9 , MD, MPH, MMSc, FWACS ;   Wai-Kit Ming   1 , MD, MPH, PhD, MMSc, EMBA

1 School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

2 Faculty of Medicine, International School, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

3 MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

4 School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

5 International School, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

6 College of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

7 Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

8 National Media Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, School of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

9 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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