claim: preliminary evidence that higher temperatures are associated with lower incidence of covid-19 , for cases reported globally up to 29th february 2020
evidence_1: using global line-list data on covid-19 cases reported until 29th february 2020 and global gridded temperature data, and after adjusting for surveillance capacity and time since first imported case, higher average temperature was strongly associated with lower covid-19 incidence for temperatures of 1°c and higher.", "however, temperature explained a relatively modest amount of the total variation in covid-19 incidence.")