id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-280722-glcifqyp Rios, V. Is there a link between temperatures and COVID-19 contagions? Evidence from Italy 2020-05-19 .txt text/plain 17627 904 51 From an empirical perspective, the strand of literature analyzing its determinants has highlighted the relevance of different factors in shaping regional reactions to COVID-19 epidemic, such as air pollution (AQR, 2020a; Pansini and Fonaca, 2020; Setti et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2020) , social mobility and connectedness (Arenas et al., 2020; Pluchino et al., 2020; Kuchler et al., 2020) , population density (Fang and Wahba, 2020; AQR, 2020b) , the level of policy stringency and the timings of the lockdowns Orea and Alvarez, 2020; Casares and Khan, 2020) , or the effects of proactive testing (Wang et al., 2020b; Romer, 2020) among others. (2020) investigate the link between climate factors within a sample of 50 cities of different countries all over the world by means of linear regression techniques finding that temperatures 2 meters above the surface, exert a negative and statistically significant effect on the total number of contagions whereas humidity increases them. ./cache/cord-280722-glcifqyp.txt ./txt/cord-280722-glcifqyp.txt