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Low temperatures, a higher proportion of elderly people and a higher incidence of cancer are among possible causes
When it left the Chinese province of Hubei for Europe and its Asian neighbors – between December 2019 and January 2020 – the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus found in some regions of the globe particularly favorable conditions for its spread.
After analyzing data from 126 countries, including Brazil, researchers from Unicamp (University of Campinas) and Barcelona identified a set of factors that would have favored the rapid spread of the virus in the initial phase of the epidemic, that is, before policies were adopted to contain contagion.
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