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Corona: Will the summer stop the spread?
Winter time is flu time – does everything get better in summer? At least that was a faint hope that spread all over the world.
A study led by Rachel Baker now examined this hypothesis. A potential spread of the novel coronavirus under different climatic conditions was simulated using existing data from similar coronaviruses, which also belong to the betacoronavirus genus .
Factors taken into account included, for example, different geographic locations and the immunity of the population to an advanced stage of the pandemic.
According to study: weather has little influence on coronavirus
Unfortunately, the result of the study is sobering: the research team concludes that the summer will not bring the hoped-for slowdown of the corona virus. As the simulations showed, the weather has no decisive influence on the course of the virus. Neither humidity nor temperature seem to have a significant effect on spread.
According to Baker and her team, seasonal peaks can occur after the first wave of infections has flattened out, but climate has only a minimal impact on the magnitude and timing of a pandemic outbreak. Much more decisive: the immunity of the population! This factor will continue to be of paramount importance in the spread of the virus.
