Researchers at the University of Maryland (UM) have even used this data to attempt to map out other parts of the world that could be at risk of imminent outbreaks. Some of the worst hit areas around the world – from Wuhan, where the virus was first detected, to Iran, Italy and South Korea – are on more or less the same latitude, with similar temperatures and relative humidity. There is evidence to suggest the coronavirus does particularly well in certain climates.
Australia, Brazil and Argentina, all currently in the middle of summer, have also reported dozens of cases. “This is why it’s really important to understand that a lot of what we’re doing now is getting ourselves ready for what we’re calling the second wave of this,” Michael warned.īut what if the virus does not behave like influenza? Could we be dealing with infection rates that remain high throughout the year? More than 100 cases have been confirmed in Singapore, where it’s hot and muggy pretty much year round. The hope is that, along with radical action by governments and the public to decrease the number of new cases, reduced spread during warmer weather would give health systems space to cope with the initial influx of coronavirus patients, and buy time for a potential vaccine to be developed. Michael predicted the coronavirus may behave like the flu and give us “less trouble as the weather warms up,” but, he cautioned, it could come back when the weather gets cold again. Behavioral differences in winter can also have an effect. Influenza thrives in cold and dry conditions, which is why winter is flu season for much of the northern hemisphere.
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“We’re all inside, the windows are closed, etcetera, so we typically call that the influenza or the flu season.” “This is a respiratory virus and they always give us trouble during cold weather, for obvious reasons,” Nelson Michael, a leading US military medical researcher, said of the novel coronavirus last week. There is one area in which experts hope the virus will still behave like influenza, however, by tapering off in spring. The coronavirus also appears to be about as infectious as the flu, and potentially more so, especially as there are no specific treatment, cure or seasonal vaccine. At its lowest estimated fatality rate based on current data, Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, is thought to kill some 1-2% of known patients, compared to around 0.1% for winter influenza.
* Updated понеділок 6 Березень 2023 p.As the novel coronavirus began spreading around the world this year, one common refrain from skeptics of the emergency measures being put in place to stop the outbreak was that it was just like the flu – dangerous to sensitive groups but routine and not something to get into lockdown over. Business Date to Date (exclude holidays).
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