Assertion: hot weather | /r/CapableOf | increase transmission rates
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text: While environmental conditions likely play a limited role in determining where and when COVID-19 occurs, hot weather can compound impacts and worsen outcomes for COVID-19 patients, could increase transmission rates as people congregate outdoors and in public spaces, and the additional caseload of heat stress patients can place strain on healthcare and other critical systems at a time when many are already at the breaking point.