President Trump has suggested that the coronavirus outbreak will be gone by April because “the heat generally speaking kills this kind of virus,” as reported by USA Today. He has appointed Vice President Pence to take charge of the U.S. response to the disease.

But, will the coronavirus be responsive to seasonal changes similar to the flu?

Experts say it’s a comforting thought, but there’s no evidence that will happen.

In short, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that the spread of the disease will abate with warmer weather. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) notes that “at this time, it is not known whether the spread of COVID-19 will decrease when weather becomes warmer.”

COVID-19 is different from the virus strains that cause the flu even though it can lead to similar symptoms of respiratory problems.

So, to glean some insights, we need to look backwards to comparable outbreaks.

The SARS epidemic, which spread in 2002 across Asia, started in November and continued into July. The outbreak was contained comparatively quickly — only 8,000 people worldwide were infected.

MERS began in September 2012 in Saudi Arabia, a country with relatively higher temperatures. “We don’t see too much evidence of seasonality in MERS,” Stuart Weston, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told National Geographic.

The CDC says it is is simply too soon to know how COVID-19 will react when it first encounters warmer springtime temperatures.


These cold and flu viruses are person-to-person airborne transmissions so the air itself will make a difference. Dry air tends to support viruses floating around while humid air, with more water droplets, has those airborne viruses falling to the ground. Thus, humid air may help slow infection rates. Fewer virus molecules in the air the better. Check that “good” box for Houston.

In addition, studies do indicate that such viruses do not live as well in hot weather as cold (consider that this whole thing started in the winter months in China). Of course, just how hot can matter and we’re not going to get extremely hot until summer. We are, however, expecting a warmer than normal March to May across much of the country:



https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/485052-trump-says-coronavirus-will-die-off-in-warmer

Very right...

Yep it will go away. It can't survive 35 to 40¢

what he said is VERY STUPID, to say the least.....

first and foremost, didnt the virus started right in the middle of winter in China yet spread in warmer places?!?!?!?!?!

furthermore all year long, there are areas of the world where its winter/cold (whether in January or August) so therefore when it will be summer in the northern hemisphere (aka US/EUROPE), it will be winter in countries in the southern hemisphere.... so the virus will keep spreading because someone infected in Argentina, Australia, South Africa or New Zealand could just take a plane to a warm place and keep infecting them, duh!

Yea

let's ask buhari

trump Nigerian fans don't want to know

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I believe my darling Trump, no cause for any alarm.

MrBrownJay1:
what he said is VERY STUPID, to say the least.....

first and foremost, didnt the virus started right in the middle of winter in China yet spread in warmer places?!?!?!?!?!

furthermore all year long, there are areas of the world where its winter/cold (whether in January or August) so therefore when it will be summer in the northern hemisphere (aka US/EUROPE), it will be winter in countries in the southern hemisphere.... so the virus will keep spreading because someone infected in Argentina, Australia, South Africa or New Zealand could just take a plane to a warm place and keep infecting them, duh!

calm down! Trump is not stupid. he just told you what the bioscientists who engineered the virus told him.

bigiyaro:
calm down! Trump is not stupid. he just told you what the bioscientists who engineered the virus told him.

very simple

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Yep it will go away. It can't survive 35 to 40¢

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bigiyaro:
calm down! Trump is not stupid. he just told you what the bioscientists who engineered the virus told him.

WHO said the virus is spreading faster in Africa

I just hope so

But iran is hotter and the virus is tormenting them