The Challenge of Using Epidemiological Case Count Data: The Example of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and the Weather

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	The Challenge of Using Epidemiological Case Count Data: The Example of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and the Weather
	Forthcoming in Environmental and Resource Economics
	2020-08-25
出版年	2020
国家	英国
领域	地球科学 ; 资源环境
英文摘要	The publicly available data on COVID-19 cases provides an opportunity to better understand this new disease. However, strong attention needs to be paid to the limitations of the data to avoid making inaccurate conclusions. This article, which focuses on the relationship between the weather and COVID-19, raises the concern that the same factors influencing the spread of the disease might also affect the number of tests performed and who gets tested. For example, weather conditions impact the prevalence of respiratory diseases with symptoms similar to COVID-19, and this will likely influence the number of tests performed. This general limitation could severely undermine any similar analysis using existing COVID-19 data or comparable epidemiological data. This could mislead decision-makers on questions of great policy relevance.
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来源平台	Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/292777
专题	地球科学资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Forthcoming in Environmental and Resource Economics. The Challenge of Using Epidemiological Case Count Data: The Example of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and the Weather,2020.