With the onset of winter, medical experts have warned that the coronavirus could be more dangerous.
According to an article published in the journal Nature, the rates of viruses that cause respiratory diseases, including influenza and coronaviruses, increase in winter and decrease in summer.
David Relman of Stanford University in California says the corona virus is about to regain its youth, and we may face difficult months.
Experts have consistently said that the outbreak of CoV 19 could worsen in the winter, although it is not yet known whether the disease will become seasonal.
Some experts say that in the winter, people spend most of their time in indoors, where poor ventilation increases the risk of transmitting the virus, so even mild weather can have serious consequences. ۔ Therefore, experts say that social distance and face masks will play an important role in preventing this.
What does the evidence say?
Seasonal trends in viral infections are driven by a number of factors, such as people's behavior and the virus's own characteristics. Some viruses do not like hot and humid weather, and laboratory experiments on the new corona virus suggest that it is cold. And the dry weather is perfect.
For example, artificial ultraviolet rays can inactivate new corona virus particles in the ground and air. Similarly, at temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and more humid weather, many viruses become inactive. Dylan Morris, a Princeton University expert, says that in winter, the environment inside the enclosure is ideal for stabilizing the virus.
Scientists make new discovery about coronavirus
A study published in October examined the rate of cases of the new corona virus during the first four months, and found that the rate increased rapidly in places where there was less sunlight. ۔
Medical experts are still working on the effects of the coronavirus epidemic.
The future of the corona virus
Medical experts say that if the new corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) could better protect itself in cold weather, it would be more difficult to identify the effects of human behavior, says a London School of Hygiene expert. Kathleen O'Reilly says the flu has been around us for hundreds of years and its specific mechanism, why it thrives in the winter, is still not well understood.
Experts believe that over time, the effects of climate change will be significant in determining the spread of the disease, as more and more people will develop immunity to the virus, if people get the vaccine. It may take a year or less.
Colin Carlson, an expert at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., says it will depend on a number of factors that need to be understood, such as how long immunity to the virus lasts and how long people are exposed to the disease. They recover and people are more likely to get an infection.
