Opinion | David A. Andelman: COVID-19 spikes in South Africa and Melbourne offer America clues ahead of winter 2020. - NBCNewsTHINK
There are also a host of behavioral differences between the seasons that could contribute to spikes. Quite simply, the tendency of more people clustering in enclosed spaces to keep warm during the winter months inevitably facilitates the spread of the coronavirus.
"Certain viruses like influenza tend to have a seasonality," Jennifer Nuzzo, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told me in an interview."Some people think it's humidity. Some people think it's temperature. Some people think it's behavioral, and which of those is most important is not known. Also, do they all matter? That's also not known.
"We projected that recurrent wintertime outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 will probably occur after the initial, most severe pandemic wave," Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers Stephen Kissler and Christine Tedijanto and their associates ."Absent other interventions, a key metric for the success of social distancing is whether critical care capacities are exceeded. To avoid this, prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022."While we don’t have as much research on COVID-19 as we’d like, scientists do have plenty of studies that examine the behavior of viruses like the Spanish flu.
While we don't have as much research on COVID-19 as we'd like, scientists do have plenty of studies that examine the behavior of viruses like the Spanish flu — an influenza strain that was responsible for a lethal pandemic a century ago. At the time, there was no vaccine treatment, nor for that matter as assiduous monitoring of the spread, but it is believed that
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