This slight weather change could make COVID cases double, study
This sticky moisture could sweat you, but there is probably probably the coronavirus to spread.
Summer dog days have a very special way to make you feel uncomfortable. But these high temperatures of the sky and the high humidity that make you sweat decrease while we start to approach the fall. However, it turns out, this hill in the air that makes you feel that Gross can actually help stop the propagation of coronavirus. According to a new study,aLight weather parade Towards the drop in moisture could make COVID cases doublingDue to favorable propagation conditions for the virus.
New research in Australia, published today in the journalCross-border and emerging diseases, find that there is a direct correlation with alower moisture and increased community transmission New coronavirus. The results show that just a percent of relative humidity can increase from 7 to 8% of COVID cases and a 10% moisture drop would double the number of coronavirus cases in a given area.
"The dry air seems to favor the propagation of COVID-19, which means that the time and the place become important"Michael district, PhD, an epidemiologist at the University of Sydney and co-author of the study, said in a statement. "The accumulation of evidence shows thatThe climate is a covid-19 propagation factor, raising the perspective of seasonal epidemics. "
The new research is the second study of Ward to defend these conclusions, build on evidence that it found in May thatAtmospheric conditions can accelerate or slow propagation particles. "When theMoisture is lower, the air is drier and the aerosols are smaller, "said Ward of the previous study." When you sternate and touch, these smaller infectious atosols can remain suspended in the air longer. Which increases exposure to other people. "
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However,Higher moisture levels also pose another risk: Another new study published today in the newspaperFluid physics found that potentially contaminated-covid air droplets can live up to 23 times longerhigh-humidity.
That's why in June,Bromage Erin, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, told CNN that there is asweet task when it comes to moisture. "There is a kind of" Goldilocks "area for coronavirus, between 40 and 60 years old [as a percentage] moisture, where it will not survive for a very long time," said Bromage. And for more time and Covid, checkDr. Faisci has just confirmed that this only thing kills coronavirus.
