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Title UK Covid cases set to soar even further as temperatures plunge – Vallance issues warning Media name/outlet The Express Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 30/03/22 Description The problem, argues a recent meta-analysis of 158 research papers into this connection that were published early in the pandemic, is that many of these studies used over-simplified methods to look for a relationship between COVID-19 and weather conditions.
Paper author and meteorologist Professor David Schultz of the University of Manchester said: “What was most surprising to me was that over half of the studies we examined (80 out of 158) did not say that they accounted for the time lag between the weather on the day the people were infected and the day when their COVID-19 illness was reported.
“We know this could be as much as two weeks. Thus, we had to throw these studies out of further analysis because we couldn’t trust their results.”URL https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1588431/covid-warning-cases-soar-uk-weather-met-office-below-freezing-patrick-vallance?gator_td=IbXG3Sds76Y3Lc3W0%2B2%2F3QvLCZYcNMQ9O2Ik1LfWfk9SQsOx2GkurbspLOI%2B6BgCCusMfBC5GMrkZVdAo4%2BweXHKNpbHd7rwY%2BhRj55FFIv78N9CBoJxhaHQWxbfWLoGoEYcMl9juNG6U4n1%2BRdsWwjYlUrQ9ySDF8ELCOXPkMU%3D Persons David Schultz
Keywords
- COVID-19
- weather