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

We demonstrate for the first time the epidemiological correlation between water vapor pressure and respiratory tract infection virus-2019-nCoV other than influenza. In coronavirus(SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV) and RSV have not been reported to be associated with water vapor pressure. According to its related mechanism analysis, Sundell et al., believes that, as for the relationship between climatic factors and viral respiratory epidemiology, in temperate climate, non-coated viruses (HRV and HEV) when causing infection, may be transmitted through large drops or close contact rather than through small atomized particles, so the dependence of transmission factors on meteorological factors is relatively small (Sundell et al., 2016 ) . Previous studies have shown that the envelope (E) protein of coronavirus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is directly related to viral toxicity (DeDiego et al.,2014; CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.