id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-351584-380s4j70 Ward, Michael P. The role of climate during the COVID‐19 epidemic in New South Wales, Australia 2020-06-01 .txt text/plain 2248 108 44 Using COVID‐19 notification and postcode data from New South Wales, Australia during the exponential phase of the epidemic in 2020, we used time series analysis to investigate the relationship between 749 cases of locally acquired COVID‐19 and daily rainfall, 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. temperature, and 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. relative humidity. Each remaining variable was included in a univariate generalized additive model (GAM) with daily F I G U R E 1 Time series (a) of 749 notified cases of COVID-19 in New South Wales, Australia (counts) in which infection was determined to be locally acquired and for which postcode of residence was reported, during the period 12 February (day 43) to 31 March (day 91); and median rainfall and 9 a.m. ./cache/cord-351584-380s4j70.txt ./txt/cord-351584-380s4j70.txt