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Some article say, it will slow in warmer weather--but the end point is. NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE. IT IS A NEW VIRUS.
Will heat stop the spread of the new coronavirus? No one really knows
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/will-heat-stop-the-spread-of-the-new-coronavirus-no-one-really-knows
Published 6 days ago
Coronavirus
Associated Press
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WILL THE VIRUS RETREAT IN HOT WEATHER?
No one knows. The new coronavirus was identified only in late December and most scientists say there is simply no data to suggest the COVID-19 cases will start declining in warmer weather.
We have to assume that the virus will continue to have the capacity to spread, and its a false hope to say yes, it will just disappear in the summertime like influenza, said Dr. Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization's emergencies chief.
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Dr. Dale Fisher, a senior consultant in infectious diseases at the National University of Singapore, was similarly unconvinced that hot weather would significantly slow its spread.
Maybe after its been around for a few years and most of the world has had it, maybe then it will settle into a more flu-like pattern, he said. Since we have no natural immunity to this, were all much more vulnerable, no matter what the weather is.
mcar
(42,278 posts)Australia, etc. It's hot there now.
OrlandoDem2
(2,065 posts)Weve slowly climbed to 216 cases.
Watch to see where we go from here.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)OrlandoDem2
(2,065 posts)Im the mean parent who wont let them go.
Hugin
(33,032 posts)Mosquitoes.
LaurenOlimina
(1,165 posts)Go here:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Look at the equatorial and southern hemisphere cases.
It has been in Singapore at 90 degrees for months.
The answer is no.
Siwsan
(26,241 posts)If, maybe that would somewhat mitigate the spread.
Beakybird
(3,330 posts)Russia has very few cases as well. China has almost no new cases.
It's been reported that North Korea has a draconian cure. They shoot the patient.