[setter]

“can’t believe this hasn’t hit the slums of india yet.”

It is not spreading in warm climates. No cases in Africa either. Hot Australia has it due to Chinese nationals working there. All case are above the equator in colder climates.

The WHO said it will go away for the most part when spring arrives but think it will come back in the fall.

[Excubiae]

It is not spreading in warm climates.

How do we know this? What warm climates are we doing testing in, other than on the handful of people caught in the not-exactly-stringent airport screening? AFAIK the only people being tested are symptomatic people who have a direct connection to Wuhan or known cases. There are no cases in Africa, but doesn't that just mean that there was never any testing done on people who left China, for Africa. Given that the screening was a joke, how would we know whether infected people got into Africa, and it has been spreading all over the place (given the long asymptomatic period, and the fact that this only started in earnest a couple of weeks ago, this is not unrealistic).

Truth of the matter is that we have no idea. It may be that there are no cases in Africa. Or there could be a hundreds of thousands. And, realistically, we have no way of knowing one way or the other.

[Black Agnes]

ITTA.

SARS also loved airconditioning. Cool and dry is best for these viruses.

[calenel]

“It is not spreading in warm climates.”

It’s not spreading where it has been successfully contained. There is no clear evidence that it is a cold-weather bug other than the WHO’s questionable claims.

“No cases in Africa either.”

There are, reportedly, only two places in Africa capable of doing the test, and very little in the way of medical infrastructure, so how would we really know until somebody goes and investigates? I wouldn’t count on Africa, Central America or India being remotely safe until there is real data coming out of those places.