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.
The Philippines hadnly one death — a Chinese worker freshly arrived from China. Tehran, in the Middke East, was and is cold. Singapore and Hong Kong have plentiful air conditioning where the virus can be carried from person to person on fanned, cool air.
Is it just a coincidence that hot countries that are too poor to have widespread air conditioning have had almost no cases of the corona virus? These poor countries are often densely populated with poor health practices and no travel bans. Many are next to or near China and have more Chinese per capita traveling there than most other countries that have been infected. Yet they have had almost no cases.
The outbreaks have occurred either in cool places with temperatures in the 40s Fahrenheit (we haven’t seen it in very cold, freezing temperatures) or in hot areas that are more prosperous and are heavily air conditioned.
Here in Seattle, the corona virus epicenter of the United States, the cherry trees will blossom in the next couple of weeks. I am sure the virus will dissipate in April as temperatures ease into the 50s and above.
Calm down. Things will be just fine very soon.
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