id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-332457-gan10za0 de Ángel Solá, David E. Weathering the pandemic: How the Caribbean Basin can use viral and environmental patterns to predict, prepare and respond to COVID‐19 2020-04-10 .txt text/plain 2867 168 39 On March 12, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, the pathogen responsible for the clinical disease known as COVID-19. Recently, a pattern favoring cold, dry weather was also observed in Hong Kong in a 6-year-long study, though in this case coronaviruses were found yearround 48 Therefore, data from other coronaviruses and the similar portal of infection discussed above do support the idea that SARS-CoV-2 may follow the same patterns as influenza, and that timing interventions around influenza peaks in the Caribbean would be reasonable. If SARS-CoV-2 interacts with climate and weather as theorized above, it is likely that areas in the Greater Caribbean with Air Surface Temperatures (AST) >25°C and RH>70% might be considered areas of relatively decreased environmental risk (Figure 1 ) 53 . ./cache/cord-332457-gan10za0.txt ./txt/cord-332457-gan10za0.txt