07 Jun Corona & Summer Heat: Real Decline in Virus Unlikely
We curated this story about summer heat and corona written by Jordan Davidson for EcoWatch. The news is not sunny.
Researchers have found that warm temperatures in the U.S. this summer are unlikely to stop the coronavirus that causes the infectious disease COVID-19, according to a new study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Disease.
While the flu is seasonal, researchers who have tested the coronavirus in the lab found that the coronavirus is sensitive to heat and light, but those are at extremes. Summer temperatures may account for a slight decline in cases, but nothing that will allow us to return to normal or kill the virus, as Newsweek reported.
“There is an association between temperature and rate of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus which may result in modest decline in the community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 with warmer weather,” the researchers wrote in their conclusion, according to Newsweek. “This effect is modest, however, and is unlikely to slow down disease spread if containment measures are relaxed…”
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