That paper correlating temperature with transmission is comically bad. As stated above, the likelihood warmer temperatures by themselves will have any affect on COVID-19 transmission or deaths is close to zero.
I've been seeing comments all over that the temperature will reduce transmission, and even heard it cited in the news today. I'm very skeptic about this since citing SARS research is useless here.
fwiw trying to find evidence of this claim in studies relating to covid19 (peer reviewed or not) has so far yielded no results.
Huh? SARS is the closest studied virus there is to COVID-19. It is certainly not useless. Of course there are no/few results for COVID-19, it didn't exist until a few months ago and even then was relatively unknown until about a end of January.
fwiw trying to find evidence of this claim in studies relating to covid19 (peer reviewed or not) has so far yielded no results.