I keep hearing from several doctors, including my brother-in-law who is an internist, speculating that the corona virus infection may halt or slow down in summer when the temperature is starting to reach 40°C (celcius) and above. Summer here in our country(Philippines) starts next month April while in colder countries starts by June or July right? Your thoughts about this? I pray this end soon
I also heard oranges can cure Corona.... Spoiler Even without summer, we can cook an egg on the pavement at noon here
...It won't. “We have to assume that the virus will continue to have the capacity to spread,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s health emergencies program, said at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. “It’s a false hope to say, yes, that it will disappear like the flu.” We can only hope that whoever designed Covid-19 didn't add too many mutagenic points.
It's probably because the weather is hot and people will stay at home instead of going everywhere spreading the disease. And maybe the virus will die faster outside human body if the temperature is hot enough.
Still best to be cautious kabayan, flu and fevers is in season atm. And weather can be erratic. Hopefully summer will help curb the virus infections or they finalize a cure soon. I also hope it doesn't get worse like we discover it can also be transmitted via mosquito bites =_=
I thought people stayed inside when it's cold. Summer time is for beaches and parties. Bears hibernate during winter..right?
I live in tropical climate so it's either hot or ridiculously hot here. So i just assume summer is just like when the weather is super hot in my country. I usually spent my time indoor to avoid the heat.
nah~ on equator it depend on place~ it hot, it humid, you may wet yourself from sweat~ rolling around on your bed at night cuz too hot and there no fan or ac~ if ya open da window sometime annoying mosquitoes add da salt~ what a bother~
I suppose the reason people think that the coronavirus may slow in hotter temperatures because for all organisms, they function at peak capacity at specific temperatures, which is similar to why your body gets a fever to fight off infections by slowing down the chemical reactions within the bacteria/virus or something. DOn't quote me on this
My hubby got a work protocol for the Corona virus a couple of weeks ago, based on the Japanese studies...and I learned two interesting things from it: 1. Corona virus is actually weak in that it cannot withstand 26 to 27 degrees celsius...and that sunlight kills it. 2. That if you think you have kissed someone with the virus or put your hands on your mouth, drinking water flushes it to your stomach so that it doesn't infect you. @Nightow1 what do you think of the above?
People keep saying the virus will die if ____, or ___, etc But i remember what i learnt in school that virus don't die, they just enter a state of unliving and that you always have influenza virus in your body since you contacted it and they just come back alive every season suitable for it to live. Soooooooo....
Virus' mutate rapidly. We need, as a race, to find a vaccine or enhance our immunity to it as we do with other Virus' and disease. Those Anti-vaxers are gonna have to play ball.
I actually got a similar one too. Apparently it can only survive up to 30min (?) in hot areas. No explanation why yet, it's just observational data for now. As for the sunlight one, yes, that is common. Specifically UV. Without an epidermal layer to protect it and lacking a uvr UV damage repair system, viruses are vulnerable to the DNA damage caused by sunlight. No idea about the drinking water one though. Would recommend against it since the virus spreads by droplet infection. It's like testing for sharks by sticking your leg into the shark tank. I think you need to separate the difference between population death and specific pathogen death. It's different. Massive amounts of virii can die and that helps, but a hidden recurring population of pathogen will keep coming back. BTW, what you mention unliving are spores, not virii.