[SeekAndFind]

“Weather alone, [such as an] increase of temperature and humidity as the spring and summer months arrive in the Northern Hemisphere, will not necessarily lead to declines in case counts without the implementation of extensive public health interventions,” said the study, which was published in February and is also awaiting scientific review.

[MrEdd]

Depends on where you are.

Where I am spring is humid, summer is dry, and yeah three digit temperatures with dust will kill it off.

[exDemMom]

We cannot assume that this coronavirus will behave as other coronaviruses with respect to weather and temperature. It is an unknown.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Wait for it.... Blame on climate change

[TroutGuy]

Some rare good news. I say turn off the Air Conditioner this summer at work if it will save lives. Our grandparents lived without air conditioner- we can do so for a summer.

[Paladin2]

Gorebal Warning!

[Starcitizen]

Singapore has it and the (now) the Middle East is getting it. Getting ready to explode numbers-wise in the Philippines, where very few tests were actually given. All tropical countries.

[null and void]

"“Weather alone, [such as an] increase of temperature and humidity as the spring and summer months arrive in the Northern Hemisphere, will not necessarily lead to declines in case counts"

If it did, Singapore wouldn't have case, nor would Australia and Brazil and Indonesia and...

Wash your hands, minimize social contact. Best wishes and good luck!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[sanjuanbob]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m heading to Death Valley.

[NittanyLion]

This should be very easy to determine. Investigators should be able to run accelerated and real time stability studies at a variety of temp and humidity conditions and determine with high specificity how the virus reacts. It’s frankly a bit surprising we’re still speculating, someone must know with high confidence.

[DeplorableGirl]

It’s already high 70s here in Louisiana. Soon to be 90s.
Flip side; the humidity is just cranking up.
Dunno.
No cases here yet. A couple high school groups selfquarenteened after returning from Italy. No one’s tested
positive yet.

[trebb]

Gosh - like the Flu, it seems to not do well in heat - but it’s “The Great Dem Hope” so it might not follow the rules...
Fox had a doctor on that said that while it can”live on surfaces” for a decent period, the most likely period of transmission from those surfaces is really only a few hours in duration.
Take normal cold/Flu precautions instead of setting your hair on fire and your chances are very good to avoid it...and there is also a chance to be very mild or or zero symptomatic - which reinforces taking practical precautions.