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This submission belongs to the session B. Environmental Exposures and Health of the event The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health —Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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11 Jan, 2021
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-- Bilal, Muhammad Farhan Bashir, Asim Shahzad, Bushra Komal, Muhammad Adnan Bashir, Duojiao Tan, Nexus between temperature and COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis, in Proceedings of The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health —Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 11 January–25 January 2021, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi: 10.3390/ECERPH-3-09098
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Nexus between temperature and COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis

-- Bilal 1
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Muhammad Farhan Bashir 2
Asim Shahzad 3
Bushra Komal 4
Muhammad Adnan Bashir 5
Duojiao Tan 6
1. Hubei University of Economics, China
2. School of Business, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, PR China
3. Department of Economics and Business Administration, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan
4. The Business School, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, China
5. School of Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin, PR China
6. Hubei University of Economics
Abstract

Background: After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the impact of temperature became a debatable issue among researchers and policymakers. Extant research has examined the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic and temperature; however, existing research remains inconclusive so far. Hence, the current study aims to synthesize these mixed findings to confirm the relationship between temperature and the COVID-19 outbreak and determine the possible causes of the inconclusive conclusions in prior research.

Methods: For this meta-analysis, we retrieved the empirical studies from Scopus and Web of Science using the keywords "temperature," "coronavirus","SARS-COV-2," and "COVID-19". Following PRISMA guidelines, we have selected 63 studies that have reported the correlation coefficient values between temperature and COVID-19 pandemic. We have applied fixed-effects meta-analysis regression for this study.

Results: Our study fails to find a significant association between COVID-19 pandemic and temperature. We find that healthcare resources, COVID-19 response strategies, and climate zones play a moderating role in the relationship between COVID-19 and temperature.

Conclusion and Implications: Our findings help health practitioners and policymakers in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Current research fails to establish the direct association between temperature and COVID-19; hence our results suggest that instead of relying on meteorological indicators, policymakers need to utilize health care resources better and effectively execute COVID-19 strategies.

Keywords
COVID-19
temperature
meta-analysis.
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