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Re:Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu (... by troydavis on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:58AM (#22602443)
Here’s an analysis of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22563932 (“High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19”):

> One degree Celsius increase in temperature and one percent increase in relative humidity lower R by 0.0383 and 0.0224, respectively.

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Re:Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu (... by feanaro on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:35AM (#22602614)
Unfortunately, if you take a look at figure 3 in that paper, you'll see that correlation is extremely weak and the non-zero coefficients almost entirely driven by a single outlier.
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