Global warming to the rescue!
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 12:03 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, Doug Jones wrote:
High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19 by
Jingyuan Wang, Ke Tang, Kai Feng, Weifeng Lv :: SSRN
Not a big surprise. As the authors note, flu shows the same behavior.
Measles virus likewise has a dramatically shorter transmissible lifetime
(airborne or on surfaces) in humid air.
This is a big reason, possibly *the* big reason, why colds, flu, etc. are
mostly a winter problem.
It'll certainly help with this one, but just how much is harder to
predict. Let's hope for an early spring and a hot, muggy summer! :-)
Henry