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Climate could influence the COVID-19 pandemic, but while no evidence has been advanced on the influence of colder climates, some studies have provided data to support a possible heat-related protective factor. The objective is to verify whether areas with a Cold Temperate Climate (TC) have a higher Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) for COVID-19 than areas with a Cold Climate (CC) or with a Mediterranean Climate (MC) in the European Union and the Enlarged European Region. Countries or regions were subdivided into 3 groups according to the Köppen climate classification system: TC (Cfa, Cfb and Cfc in the Köppen system); MC (Csa, Csb); CC (D and E in the Köppen system). The total number of cases and the total number of deaths were detected on 13 August 2020 on the COVID-19 Map-Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center-the CFR was thus calculated by area. Living in TC areas is strongly associated with risk of a high Case Fatality Ratio for COVID-19, OR for MC =0.42, IC 95% 0.41-0.43; OR for CC=0.33, IC 95% 0.33-0.35. The results are confirmed in the EU, OR per MC=0.85, CI 95% 0.84-0.87; OR per CC=0.63, IC 95% 0.61-0.65.The study found that the IC in a humid temperate climate is associated with higher CFR with respect to the coldest and warmest temperate climates in Europe. This does not appear to be the only determinant of the pandemic.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Porn Studies: Proliferating Pornographies On/Scene: An Introduction -- Part 1 Contemporary Pornographies -- How to Do Things with the Starr Report: Pornography, Performance, and the President's Penis -- Sex in the Suburban: Porn, Home Movies, and the Live Action Performance of Love in Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored -- Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women -- Going On-line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era -- Part 2 Gay, Lesbian, and Homosocial Pornographies -- Homosociality in the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-Screen -- The Cultural-Aesthetic Specificities of All-male Moving- Image Pornography -- What Do You Call a Lesbian with Long Fingers? The Development of Lesbian and Dyke Pornography -- The Gay Sex Clerk: Chuck Vincent's Straight Pornography -- Part 3 Pornography, Race, and Class -- The Resurrection of Brandon Lee: The Making of a Gay Asian American Porn Star -- Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and Interracial Lust -- Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn -- Part 4 Soft Core, Hard Core, and the Pornographic Sublime -- Pinup: The American Secret Weapon in World War II -- Gauging a Revolution: 16 mm Film and the Rise of the Pornographic Feature -- Video Pornography, Visual Pleasure, and the Return of the Sublime -- Part 5 Pornography and/as Avant-Garde -- Andy Warhol's Blow Job: Toward the Recognition of a Pornographic Avant-garde -- Unbracketing Motion Study: Scott Stark's NOEMA -- Suggested Reading: An Annotated Bibliography -- Pornographic Film and Video: A Select List of Archives and Commercial Sites -- List of Contributors -- Index