The Role of Climatic Factors in the 2021-Summer COVID-19 Outbreak-Intensification in Iran
| Main Authors: | Mohammad Reza Besharati, Mohammad Izadi, Nafiseh Jafari, Alireza Talebpour |
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| Format: | Proceeding poster |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5514330 |
Daftar Isi:
- Below you can see an animated gif about the COVID-19 intensification-of-the-outbreak map in the summer of 2021 in Iran. 1. The prevalence clearly follows a geographical pattern. 2- The outbreak starts from the southeast coast and then slowly covers the whole country. 3- Places that have the beginning of summer earlier, see the intensification of the outbreak sooner. 4- The places that are high and the ridge of the mountains of Zagros are witnessing the outbreak later and are out of the outbreak sooner. This evidence supports the theory that: 1. Although SARS-CoV-2 is an infectious disease, after almost two years of rotation of the virus in the community, its intensification does not follow only the patterns of viral transmission. Environmental factors, such as the concentration of oceanic iodine in the atmosphere, can affect the severity of the syndrome through the body's hormonal mechanisms. 2- With the beginning of summer season in an area, air currents change from the upper floors of the atmosphere to the lower floors. This could cause the redistribution of oceanic iodine from the Indian Ocean (the southeast coasts of Iran) gradually over the entire plateau of Iran. 3- In the very high areas of the Zagros ridge, where the summer heat starts later and ends earlier, the flow of oceanic iodine from the atmosphere to the earth is strengthened later and weakened sooner. This theory and its evidence suggest that the climatic factor (the concentration of oceanic iodine in the air) intensifies or weakens the hormonal mechanisms associated with SARS-CoV-2 syndrome (along with the infectious agent).