Meteorological factors correlate with transmission of 2019-nCoV: Proof of incidence of novel coronavirus pneumonia in Hubei Province, China

Jianfeng Li; Linyuan Zhang; Zhihua Ren; Caihong Xing; Peihuan Qiao; Bing Chang

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . https: //doi.org/10.1101 //doi.org/10. /2020 transmission of influenza virus in temperate regions (Shaman & Kohn, 2009; Shaman et al., 2010 Shaman et al., & 2011 Kolberg et al., 2019) . Studies from China also prove that influenza virus is negatively correlated with temperature and water vapor pressure (Cao et al., 2010; Sun et al., 2018; Yang et al., 2019; Su et al., 2020) . The average water vapor pressure in sub-cold zone climate is lower than 4 hPa, which may trigger the occurrence of influenza (Kolberg et al., 2019) . Studies in tropical/subtropical regions of China have found that, water vapor pressure is negatively correlated with the incidence of A/dnan1pdm09 (Influenza A) and Yamagata (Influenza B) (Pan et al., 2019) .