Coronavirus
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As coronavirus becomes pandemic, scientists ask if lines on the map hold the key to contagion’s spread
The coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 125,000 people around the world is concentrated in a “corridor” across the northern hemisphere, researchers said, as more studies focused on how temperature and humidity could be used to predict the spread of the contagion.
Despite worries that Southeast Asia may become a coronavirus hotspot after central China (where the Covid-19 outbreak started) because of their proximity and travel connections to the infection’s epicentre, more countries and regions like South Korea, Japan, Iran, northern Italy and the northwestern United States may have to bear the heaviest burden.
“The establishment of community transmission has occurred in a consistent east-and-west pattern. The new [regional] epicentres of the virus were all roughly along the 30-50 degree [lines of latitude] north zone,” according to a team of US and Iranian researchers.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/…
Chart shows the coronavirus spreading slowly in tropical countries:
- Let's hope this is true...there's a big difference between some countries being overwhelmed vs. the entire world at once.yuekit
- according to a team of US and Iranian researchers...is that even legal?uan
- Here's the paper they seem to be referring to: https://papers.ssrn.…yuekit
- If it's true there is a downside to this as well which is that new regions could become the next Wuhans as the weather changes.yuekit
- Specifically they are predicting: Central and Eastern Europe, British Isles, Northeastern and Midwestern USA and British Columbia will be hit hard in April.yuekit
- I think what you're all saying is that "climate change" could save us from all this.MrAbominable
- How are all of those people in the Australian Deserts, the Sahara and the Amazon staying free of infection?toemaas
- ^ social distancing ;)renderedred