When a disease like COVID-19 is spreading, people have a tendency to "want to grasp at whatever thing they can see that might be a cure, or a reason it’s safe," said Sadie Jane Ryan, an associate professor of medical geography at the University of Florida.
Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric science program at the University of Georgia, calls it "wishcasting."
“People ‘wishcast’ scenarios in our minds, but they don’tjibe with what the science or the data is actually bearing out,” Shepherd said. “The science has been very clear, we don’t understand the relationship between heat and COVID.”
It should have been obvious in the beginning, he said, when the virus began taking off in some Southeasternstates even as they experienced record-breaking heat.
Then, during the first week of July, nine of the 10 states with the biggest increases in cases were in the Sunbelt, including Florida, Texas and Arizona, according to case information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those states, Florida had the warmest temperature in June, with an average of 81 degrees, followed by Texas with an average of 80.6 degrees.
After studying the potential impacts of climate on the spread of COVID-19 earlier in the year, Rachel Baker, a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University, and a team of colleagues concluded at some point in the future the virus could become seasonal like the flu. However, the paper they published made it clear that in this early stage, a lack of immunity among the population would be the fundamental driver.
The virus “just spreads really well whether you’re inside or outside,” Baker said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/07/17/spiking-covid-19-cases-show-summers-heat-doesnt-stop-coronavirus/5447462002/
Actually they don't know that.
BGBD
11. The vaccines
still prevent severe illness even in the new variants. And the rate of vaccination is increasing daily.
You don't know that, even the CDC does not know.
What we do not know
Scientists are working to learn more about these variants, and more studies are needed to understand:
How widely these new variants have spread
How the disease caused by these new variants differs from the disease caused by other variants that are currently circulating
How these variants may affect existing therapies, vaccines, and tests
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant.html
Fact is we don't have a clue how long the vaccine will last towards immunity.
Fact is there is nowhere near the number of doses available. My mom is 94 and has not gotten one. She lives here with my sister and I. We are her caretakers and none of us are in line to get one at this time.
But feel however you want about it.
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