Steven Hayward of Power Line posts interesting research which shows concentrations of Covid-19 deaths plotted on a world weather map. The following quotes the study’s abstract:
A significant number of infectious diseases display seasonal patterns in their incidence, including human coronaviruses. We hypothesize that SARS-CoV-2 does as well. To date, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has established significant community spread in cities and regions only along a narrow east west distribution roughly along the 30-50 N” corridor at consistently similar weather patterns (5-11 degrees Celsius and low specific and absolute humidity).Translation for the bulk of COTTonLINE readers who live by Fahrenheit temps, 5-11 ℃ is between 41 and 52 ℉.
Do people who live where it is warmer get flu too? Certainly they do - I have, unhappily, on more than one occasion in a long life. But clearly one’s chances of getting respiratory infections goes down dramatically in summer. Maybe we’ll be ‘rescued’ by spring which is just under a week away. I choose to be optimistic.
